note to self: maven differentiates between installing and deploying a package (which might have been built via a mvn package):

• install — just installs the JAR file and the POM file, if the -DcreateChecksum=true flag is provided it will create the SHA1 for the JAR only
• deploy — install JAR and POM and all necessary meta data along with SHA1s

to install a package to a shared repository a deploy is to be preferred over an install as with an install we’ll get missing checksum errors later in life.

so, this works like this (using the lift-ldap package as an example):

[shell] $ mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=net.liftweb -DartifactId=lift-ldap -Dversion=1.0.0 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=target/lift-ldap-1.0.0.jar -DcreateChecksum=true -Durl=scp://eyeteadee.zurich.ibm.com/var/www/eyeteadee.zurich.ibm.com/maven [/shell]