Hello Lewis, there is a project in the commons sandbox at Apache with which you can PGP sign artifacts in an Ant build
The source code is there [1] There is an example of usage of this here [2] We use that when producing releases of Ant. Maybe this can help you ? Regards, Antoine [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/sandbox/openpgp/trunk/ [2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk/release/signit.xml On Jan 29, 2013, at 6:47 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney wrote: > Hi, > Having looked high and low for a resolution, I've been unable to find one. > I'm in the process of pushing a release on a small project which uses ant > tasks + maven for the build lifecycle. > I am attempting to deploy to sonatype staging repository with the following > configuration > > ... > <!-- defined maven snapshots and staging repository id and url --> > <property name="maven-snapshots-repository-id" > value="sonatype-nexus-snapshots" /> > <property name="maven-snapshots-repository-url" > value="https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/"; > /> > <property name="maven-staging-repository-id" > value="sonatype-nexus-staging" /> > <property name="maven-staging-repository-url" > value=" > https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/"; > /> > ... > <target name="stage" depends="dist" > description="--> deploy release version to Maven staging > repository" > xmlns:artifact="urn:maven-artifact-ant"> > <!-- sign and deploy the main artifact --> > <artifact:mvn> > <arg > > value="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin:1.3:sign-and-deploy-file" > /> > <arg value="-Durl=${maven-staging-repository-url}" /> > <arg value="-DrepositoryId=${maven-staging-repository-id}" /> > <arg value="-DpomFile=pom.xml" /> > <arg value="-Dfile=${maven-jar}" /> > <arg value="-Pgpg" /> > </artifact:mvn> > > <!-- sign and deploy the sources artifact --> > <artifact:mvn> > <arg > > value="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin:1.3:sign-and-deploy-file" > /> > <arg value="-Durl=${maven-staging-repository-url}" /> > <arg value="-DrepositoryId=${maven-staging-repository-id}" /> > <arg value="-DpomFile=pom.xml" /> > <arg value="-Dfile=${maven-sources-jar}" /> > <arg value="-Dclassifier=sources" /> > <arg value="-Pgpg" /> > </artifact:mvn> > > <!-- sign and deploy the javadoc artifact --> > <artifact:mvn> > <arg > > value="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin:1.3:sign-and-deploy-file" > /> > <arg value="-Durl=${maven-staging-repository-url}" /> > <arg value="-DrepositoryId=${maven-staging-repository-id}" /> > <arg value="-DpomFile=pom.xml" /> > <arg value="-Dfile=${maven-javadoc-jar}" /> > <arg value="-Dclassifier=javadoc" /> > <arg value="-Pgpg" /> > </artifact:mvn> > </target> > > However when I run the stage target, I get the following > > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] task-segment: > [org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin:1.3:sign-and-deploy-file] > (aggregator-style) > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] [gpg:sign-and-deploy-file] > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [artifact:mvn] [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] Cannot obtain passphrase in batch mode > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] Total time: 2 seconds > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] Finished at: Sun Jan 27 21:37:35 PST 2013 > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] Final Memory: 16M/40M > [artifact:mvn] [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [artifact:mvn] Java Result: 1 > > There is very little on the dreaded "Cannot obtain passphrase in batch > mode". > Even when I use overrides on the command line e.g. ant stage > -Dpassphrase=${passphrase}, I still get the above. > > Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can run Maven (from an Ant > task) to operate in interactive (non-batch) mode? > > Any ideas? Thanks very much in advance > > Lewis > > > > -- > *Lewis*