Re: [xwiki-devs] [Vote] Use scpexe instead of scp for maven deployments

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 14:44, Sergiu Dumitriu<sergiu(a)xwiki.com>    wrote: > On 03/22/2010 01:52 PM, Florin Ciubotaru wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> Can someone please vote on this so I know how to proceed with the hudson >> setup. >> >> > I'd rather keep the current protocol, but find out how to properly > configure it on Windows. > > Same for me.

> >> Thanks, >> Florin Ciubotaru >> >> On 3/20/2010 2:00 PM, Florin Ciubotaru wrote: >> >> >>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Vincent Massol&lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt;       wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Mar 20, 2010, at 3:32 AM, Florin Ciubotaru wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi Vincent, >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Vincent Massol&lt;vincent(a)massol.net&gt; >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Mar 19, 2010, at 6:58 PM, Florin Ciubotaru wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> We're now setting up the windows build agent for hudson. >>>>>>> In order to make deployments from windows machines we need to switch >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>> the >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>>> protocol from scp to scpexe. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> Do you know why ? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> It is because wagon doesn't properly apply the config from settings.xml >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> when >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> the protocol is set to scp. Maven's scp is a pure java implementation >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> while >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> scpexe can use extenal binaries. >>>>> The scp implementation in java works fine on linux machines and loads the >>>>> config from ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, such a config does not exist on >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> windows. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> This means that on windows we need to rely on tools like putty and pscp >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> to >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> handle the uploads. >>>>> >>>>> Note that maven's documentation regarding this is quite poor, thus I >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> can't >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> provide any useful web references. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I'd need to search but I'm pretty sure you can make it work on windows >>>> machine and you don't need to change to scpexe which should be avoided as >>>> much as possible (same svnexe). Using a pure java impl is always better >>>> since it reduces the dependency on the environment and make it work >>>> everywhere. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Scpexe also uses the java implementation if a ssh/scp tool is not explicitly >>> configured in settings.xml. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Could you tell us what error you get ? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Here's the build/deploy error message: >>> >>>      [INFO] Error retrieving previous build number for artifact >>> 'org.xwiki.platform.applications:xwiki-application-tag:xar': repository >>> metadata for: 'snapshot org.x >>> wiki.platform.applications:xwiki-application-tag:1.12-SNAPSHOT' could not be >>> retrieved from repository: maven.xwiki.org due to an error: While >>> configuring wagon >>>      for 'maven.xwiki.org': Unable to apply wagon configuration. >>> Cannot find setter nor field in >>> org.apache.maven.wagon.providers.ssh.jsch.ScpWagon for 'scpExecutable' >>> >>> This only happens if the parent pom uses scp. The issue is fixed locally >>> after modifying the pom to scpexe&       installing it to the local repository. >>> IMO this looks like a Wagon limitation. We're using version 1.0-alpha-5, I'm >>> not sure if this was modified in more recent releases: >>> - >>> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/WAGON#selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin… >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Also have you configured properly the config in settings.xml, something >>>> like the following in the server section: >>>> >>>>          <configuration> >>>>            <scpExecutable>pscp</scpExecutable> >>>>            <scpArgs>-v</scpArgs> >>>>          </configuration> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> As seen in the error message above, this is one of the configs I was trying. >>> Another option would be to use cygwin instead of putty apps as it doesn't >>> need the settings.xml configuration, but I think that configuring it would >>> end up being more system dependent then the current approach. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Florin Ciubotaru >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Thanks >>>> -Vincent >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Florin Ciubotaru >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> -Vincent >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> The local machines needs to declare the ssh and scp tools configuration >>>>>>> in maven's settings.xml. Windows tools like putty and pscp are not >>>>>>> properly configured when the protocol is set to scp. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The deployment protocol is specified in our parrent pom. Eg: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <distributionManagement> >>>>>>>        <site> >>>>>>>          <id>maven.xwiki.org</id> >>>>>>>          <url>scp://maven.xwiki.org/home/maven/public_html/site</url> >>>>>>>        </site> >>>>>>>        <repository> >>>>>>>          <id>maven.xwiki.org</id> >>>>>>>          <name>XWiki Maven2 Remote Repository for Releases</name> >>>>>>>          <url>scp://maven.xwiki.org/home/maven/public_html/releases</url> >>>>>>>        </repository> >>>>>>>        <snapshotRepository> >>>>>>>          <id>maven.xwiki.org</id> >>>>>>>          <name>XWiki Maven2 Development Repository for Snapshots</name> >>>>>>>          <url>scp://maven.xwiki.org/home/maven/public_html/snapshots</url> >>>>>>>        </snapshotRepository> >>>>>>>      </distributionManagement> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> WDYT about changing this? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>> Florin Ciubotaru >>>>>>> >>>>>>> > -- > Sergiu Dumitriu > http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > devs(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > >