apt-maven-plugin

This plugin deploys .deb artifacts into apt repository. It searches for attached artifacts which end with .deb extension. .deb files could be generated by jdeb.

Usage

To publish .deb artifacts a distribution section must be configured:

<distributionManagement>
    <repository>
      <id>apt-repository</id>
      <name>Maven artifact repository to act as apt-repository</name>
      <url>https://example.com/release</url>
    </repository>
</distributionManagement>

And configure apt-maven-plugin:

<plugins>
...
  <plugin>
    <groupId>com.aerse.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>apt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.21</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>deploy</id>
        <goals>
          <goal>deploy</goal>
        </goals>
      </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
      <component>main</component> <!-- Required. Example: main restricted universe. -->
      <codename>repo</codename> <!-- Required. Example: mycompany, repo -->
      <skip>false</skip> <!-- Not required. By default: false -->
      <sign>true</sign> <!-- Not required. By default: false. GPG-sign of "Release" file. Configuration is same as in maven-gpg-plugin -->
      <keyname>123</keyname> <!-- Not required. Keyname from the gpg keychain -->
      <passphraseServerId>gpg.passphrase</passphraseServerId> <!-- Not required. Id of server from local settings.xml -->
    </configuration>
  </plugin>
...
</plugins>

• component - type of repository. Ubuntu proposes the following naming for them:
  • main- Officially supported software. Recommended.
  • restricted - Supported software that is not available under a completely free license.
  • universe - Community maintained software, i.e. not officially supported software.
  • multiverse - Software that is not free.
• codename - codename of release.

Hints

It is possible to deploy multiple .deb file using command line. Configuration will be taken from pom.xml:

mvn apt:deploy -Dmaven.apt.files=target/*.deb

If package was signed once (using "sign=true" option), then un-sign (using "sign=false") will cause GPG checksum failure during apt-get update. Maven Wagon doesn't support "delete" operation, so I cannot remove "Release.gpg" file from apt repository. Please remove "Release.gpg" manually if you have to stop signing.

Works perfectly with aws-maven. Just configure distribution section to use s3://bucketname.

If you want to publish only .deb artifacts, then turn standard deploy plugin off:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.7</version>
    <configuration>
      <skip>true</true>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>