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Gary On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan....@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi > > I promised to start the Sanselan release process early this week, but I've > been having problem after problem: > > 1. The instructions on http://commons.apache.org/releases/prepare.html say > that you run a variation of "mvn install" to build the release... but this > only generates the .jar files, not the src/bin zip/tar.gz/tar.bz2 files. > > 2. Running "mvn assembly:assembly" fails because my UTF-8 platform locale > causes a multibyte bug in Plexus Archiver when writing a German sounding > filename into the src tar file. I reported this 3 year old bug and > submitted a patch (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/PLXCOMP-195). How did > you build Sanselan without this patch before? > > 3. Running "mvn assembly:assembly" with a manually patched Plexus Archiver > (and what a mission it was to figure out which of the 5 versions of Plexus > Archiver in my Maven repository is the one used...) does generate those > other files, but doesn't sign them. > > 4. My attempts to manually sign the .jar file, or its md5 or sha1 hash, > with gpg, generate different checksums than those generated by Maven. Thus > I cannot manually sign the zip/tar files. How is signing supposed to work, > what gets signed and how? > > 5. "mvn release" is so badly documented that I am scared to use it. When I > run it with -DdryRun=true, it hangs on [gpg:sign {execution: > sign-artifacts}]. The child process launched by "mvn release:prepare" is > launched without this parameter, and strace shows it stuck in read() on fd > 0 (stdin). Typing the passphrase and pressing enter does nothing. > Redirecting stdin from a file with the passphrase also does nothing. > Attempts to use -Dgpg.passphrase=... also do nothing, whether passed to > directly "mvn" or quoted inside the -Darguments or both, and "ps fax" shows > that it isn't passed to the child process. > > Please help? > > Thank you > Damjan > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
