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

Hi, Can someone please vote on this so I know how to proceed with the hudson setup.

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 >>>>>