svn commit: r1465272 - /commons/cms-site/trunk/content/xdoc/releases/prepare.xml

[bo...@apache.org]

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