java.io.IOException: secret key ring doesn't start with secret key tag: tag 0xffffffff

[fthomas]

During my first attempts to release via a tag I got this error: java.io.IOException: secret key ring doesn't start with secret key tag: tag 0xffffffff. Unfortunately I don't have the build log of this failed attempt anymore, so I can't show the complete stacktrace. I was able to fix this problem by slightly changing how the value of PGP_SECRET was created. Instead of

gpg --armor --export-secret-keys $LONG_ID | base64

I needed to pass -w0 to base64 which disables line wrapping

gpg --armor --export-secret-keys $LONG_ID | base64 -w0

So base64 without -w0 outputted a multiline string which caused the above error.
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.5 with base64 (GNU coreutils) 8.25.

BTW, publishing via Travis is really cool, thanks @olafurpg! :-)

[olafurpg]

Thanks for reporting and finding the workaround! I've updated the readme to include -w0 for Ubuntu cc4b031 The BSD base64 doesn't support -w0. (I was gonna open a PR but accidentally pushed to master because I don't have a fork of the repo 😅 )