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you have all Maven servers defined in your settings.xml. For more information, please refer to Committer settings.

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This is what mine looks like:

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	xml


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<settings>
 <servers>
    <!-- To publish a snapshot of some part of Maven -->
    <server>
      <id>apache.snapshots.https</id>
      <username>francisdb</username>
      <password>xxx</password>
    </server>
    <!-- To publish a website of some part of Maven -->
    <server>
      <id>apache.website</id>
      <username>francisdb</username>
      <filePermissions>664</filePermissions>
      <directoryPermissions>775</directoryPermissions>
    </server>
    <!-- To stage a release of some part of Maven -->
    <server>
      <id>apache.releases.https</id>
      <username>francisdb</username>
      <password>xxx</password>
    </server>
    <!-- To stage a website of some part of Maven -->
    <server>
      <id>stagingSite</id> <!-- must match hard-coded repository identifier in site:stage-deploy -->
      <username>francisdb</username>
      <filePermissions>664</filePermissions>
      <directoryPermissions>775</directoryPermissions>
    </server>
</servers>

  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>apache-release</id>
      <properties>
        <gpg.passphrase>xxx</gpg.passphrase>
      </properties>
    </profile>
  </profiles>

</settings>

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you have created your GPG keys. For more information, please refer to Making GPG Keys.
you have a GPG client installed and on your shell's path. See http://www.gnupg.org/.
you have a Subversion 1.5+ client installed and on your shell's path. See http://subversion.tigris.org/.
you have a Java 1.4.2 JDK installed and on your shell's path. See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html.
you have set the environment variable MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512m
you are using Maven 2.0.x or 2.2.1+, as Maven 2.1.x is known to produce wrong gpg pom signatures (see MGPG-14).

Create a mvn5 shell script and add it to your PATH. This script makes sure you use Java 5 to build the release.

/usr/bin/mvn5

sh

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#!/bin/sh JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun" mvn $@

test the script by running this command:

sh

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sh

$ mvn5 --version
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 20:16:01+0100)
Java version: *1.5.0_18*
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.18/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.28-15-generic" arch: "amd64" Family: "unix"

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