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-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# Script that assembles all you need to make an RC. Does build of the tar.gzs
-# which it stashes into a dir above $(pwd) named for the script with a
-# timestamp suffix. Deploys builds to maven.
-#
-# To finish, check what was build.  If good, copy to dist.apache.org/dev and
-# close the maven repos.  Call a vote.
-#
-# Presumes your settings.xml all set up so can sign artifacts published to mvn, etc.
-
-set -e
-
-# Script checks out a tag, cleans the checkout and then builds src and bin
-# tarballs. It then deploys to the apache maven repository.
-# Presumes run from git dir.
-
-# Need a git tag to build.
-if [ "$1" = "" ]
-then
-  echo -n "Usage: $0 TAG_TO_PACKAGE"
-  exit 1
-fi
-git_tag=$1
-
-# Set mvn
-mvn=mvn
-if [ "$MAVEN" != "" ]; then
-  mvn="${MAVEN}"
-fi
-
-# Ensure we are inside a git repo before making progress
-# The below will fail if outside git.
-git -C . rev-parse
-
-# Checkout git_tag
-git checkout "${git_tag}"
-
-# Get mvn project version
-#shellcheck disable=SC2016
-version=$(${mvn} -q -N -Dexec.executable="echo" -Dexec.args='${project.version}' exec:exec)
-hbase_name="hbase-thirdparty-${version}"
-
-# Make a dir to save tgzs into.
-d=`date -u +"%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ"`
-output_dir="${TMPDIR}/$hbase_name.$d"
-mkdir -p "${output_dir}"
-
-# Make sure all clean.
-git clean -f -x -d
-${mvn} clean
-
-# Run a rat check.
-${mvn} apache-rat:check
-
-# Build src.
-git archive --format=tar.gz --output="${output_dir}/${hbase_name}-src.tar.gz" --prefix="${hbase_name}/" "${git_tag}"
-
-# Deploy to mvn repository
-${mvn} clean deploy -Papache-release -Prelease
-
-# Do sha512
-cd ${output_dir}
-for i in *.tar.gz; do echo $i; gpg --print-md SHA512 $i > $i.sha512 ; done
-
-echo "Check the content of ${output_dir}.  If good, sign and push to dist.apache.org/dev"
-echo "  e.g. gpg --armor --output ${hbase_name}-src.tar.gz.asc --detach-sig ${hbase_name}-src.tar.gz "
-echo "Also, check the content deployed to maven.  If good, close the repo and record links of temporary staging repo"