Very useful Marshall, thanks for your hint :-) Cheers, Tommaso
2011/1/26 Marshall Schor <[email protected]> > I saw a thread here > > http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Maven-gpg-plugin-stuck-while-signing-td3353545.html > and thought I'd post a couple of experiences. > > The maven gpg plugin invokes the gpg (or gpg.exe - on windows) command. If > you > set use-agent in your configuration to true, gpg will run another "agent" > program under the covers to pop-up a window asking for your passphrase. > > This has the advantage that the agent "remembers" your passphrase for some > time > (~5 min) so if the gpg signing plugin is run on multiple things, or > multiple > times, the agent doesn't keep asking you over and over for your passphrase. > > On windows, if you install the http://www.gpg4win.org/ version of gpg, it > always > runs the agent. > > With this approach, you don't need to modify any release profiles to run in > no-fork mode (see that nabble thread above). > > This is all described in our one-time-setup for release managers, here: > http://uima.apache.org/one-time-release-setup.html > > -Marshall >
