I had to patch an external library and since my project uses Maven, I wanted to upload this patched library to my Maven repository. It turned out that I had to use maven2 as maven3 handles extensions differently.
Stackoverflow provided the rest of the information I needed to upload a library to my maven repository.
/home/draft/java/apache-maven-2.2.1/bin/mvn deploy:deploy-file -Durl=scp://tomp2p.net/home/draft/maven -DrepositoryId=ssh-tomp2p -DgroupId=org.jboss.netty -DartifactId=netty -Dversion=3.2.6.Patched -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=target/netty-3.2.6.Patched.jar