On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 02:46:33AM +0000, sebb wrote:
> On 29 February 2012 23:04, Gilles Sadowski <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> 
> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Trying the following command (from the wiki "UsingNexus" page):
> >
> >  $ mvn release:prepare -DdryRun=true
> >
> > Getting to the signing step:
> > ---CUT---
> > You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> > user: "Gilles Sadowski (ASF code signing) <er...@apache.org>"
> > 4096-bit RSA key, ID 1E22D5B8, created 2012-02-28
> >
> > Enter passphrase: [INFO] gpg: gpg-agent is not available in this session
> >
> > You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> > user: "Gilles Sadowski (ASF code signing) <er...@apache.org>"
> > 4096-bit RSA key, ID 1E22D5B8, created 2012-02-28
> >
> > Enter passphrase: [INFO] gpg: Invalid passphrase; please try again ...
> >
> > You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> > user: "Gilles Sadowski (ASF code signing) <er...@apache.org>"
> > 4096-bit RSA key, ID 1E22D5B8, created 2012-02-28
> >
> > Enter passphrase: [INFO] gpg: gpg-agent is not available in this session
> > [and again...]
> > ---CUT---
> >
> > When I try with this command:
> >
> >  $ mvn -DdryRun=true -Dgpg.keyname=er...@apache.org \
> >    -Darguments="-Dgpg.keyname=er...@apache.org" \
> >    -Prelease release:prepare
> 
> Dunno who wrote that, but it surely should not be necessary to provide
> the keyname twice?
> One of the parameters must surely be redundant, or the release plugin
> is even worse than I thought ...

In the document, it is presented as the alternative to

 $ mvn release:prepare -DdryRun=true

which behaves exactly the same (i.e. does not work here as indicated above
and below, in a way depending on the presence or not of "-Prelease").

> 
> > It gets stuck[1] after printing
> > ---CUT---
> > INFO] [INFO] Building zip:
> > /home/eran/devel/SVN/commons-math/trunk/target/commons-math3-3.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip
> > [INFO] [INFO]
> > [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-site-plugin:3.0:attach-descriptor 
> > (attach-descriptor) @ commons-math3 ---
> > [INFO] [INFO]
> > [INFO] [INFO] --- maven-gpg-plugin:1.4:sign (sign-artifacts) @ 
> > commons-math3 ---
> > ---CUT---
> 
> Have you managed to get the following working?
> 
> $ mvn package gpg:sign -DskipTests
> 
> Put the gpg.keyname in settings.xml.
> If you have more than one, put them in profiles.

Yes, that works. [With the <gpg.keyname> in a profile named "release".]
It prompts for the pass phrase and finishes successfully.

> Until you can sign locally, there's no point trying to use maven
> release - if you really want to use that.
> I find it better to use the manual method described here:
> http://wiki.apache.org/commons/UsingNexus#Create_the_SVN_tags_.28Manual_method.29
> 
> Much easier to understand, and no need to revert trunk when the
> release tag fails.

IMHO, all the more reasons to further clean up the document, leaving there
only what is confirmed to work. I think that, as a mini-howto, it should not
contain more than the strict minimum, i.e. the necessary and sufficient
steps to get to the goal of producing the release. Any alternative step (or
system-specific command) should preferrably be moved to a footnote (or a
dedicated wiki page) in order not to disturb from the main flow.



Regards,
Gilles

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