Author: bodewig
Date: Sat Apr 6 16:49:01 2013
New Revision: 1465272
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1465272
Log:
gpg plugin may fail when the passphrase has to be specified interactively
Modified:
commons/cms-site/trunk/content/xdoc/releases/prepare.xml
Modified: commons/cms-site/trunk/content/xdoc/releases/prepare.xml
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/cms-site/trunk/content/xdoc/releases/prepare.xml?rev=1465272&r1=1465271&r2=1465272&view=diff
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--- commons/cms-site/trunk/content/xdoc/releases/prepare.xml (original)
+++ commons/cms-site/trunk/content/xdoc/releases/prepare.xml Sat Apr 6
16:49:01 2013
@@ -501,6 +501,9 @@
</p>
<p>This will PGP-sign all artifacts and upload them to a new staging
repository, Nexus itself will create MD5
and SHA1 checksums for all files that have been uploaded.</p>
+ <p>A known problem is that gpg signing may fail if the gpg plugin tries
to read the passphrase interactively.
+ It works if you specify the passphrase when invoking mvn
(<code>-Dgpg.passprase=***</code>) or run
+ <code>gpg-agent</code> before starting mvn.</p>
<p>Unfortunately this uploads more than should be part of the Maven
repository, in particular the binary and source
distribution <code>.tar.gz</code> and <code>.zip</code> files are
there as well. Before you
<a
href="http://www.apache.org/dev/publishing-maven-artifacts.html#close-stage";>close</a>
the staging
