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Disable automatic updates [message #1791982]

Mon, 09 July 2018 05:53

Eclipse User

I'm looking to deploy Ecplise in a classroom type setting, ideally I'd like to turn off the automatic updates via a config file, I'm basically open to any mechanism other than expecting people to open up menus in the GUI to turn them off.

I've downloaded the zip of files from the website and the intention is to unzip the files to C:\Program Files. I noticed that the file "C:\Program FIles\eclipse\p2\org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine\profileRegistry\epp.package.jee.profile\.data\.settings\org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk.scheduler.prefs" gets created when the automatic updates through the GUI are turned off. This works fine when I run the program as administrator, but when it's run as a normal user (who doesn't have write access to this location) a new set of config files are created in C:\users\%username%\.eclipse that have updates enabled by default.

It's entirely possible that I'm going about this in the wrong way, but if anyone has any advice on how to turn off for all users that would be greatly appreciated.

Machines are running Windows 10 1803, and this is using the latest version of Eclipse (4.8.0)

Re: Disable automatic updates [message #1792040 is a reply to message #1791982]

Tue, 10 July 2018 08:46

Eclipse User

I think it should be possible using -pluginCustomization in the eclipse.ini

https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-core/documents/user_settings/plugin_customization.html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24002530/how-can-i-specify-eclipse-preferences-using-plugin-customization-ini
https://help.eclipse.org/photon/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fmisc%2Fruntime-options.html

Re: Disable automatic updates [message #1792097 is a reply to message #1792040]

Wed, 11 July 2018 05:59

Eclipse User

Thanks for the links, think I've stumbled across these while searching for an answer to this question and it isn't really clear to me how these settings are determined.

In the help file linked there is an option -noUpdate which is described as 'no longer relevant' - is there any mention anywhere as to why this is no longer relevant, or more importantly, what it's been replaced with?

I've had a look through the help files a bit more and there is a section on multi user installs, the Scenario 3 seems to be what I'm looking for, but when I specify a configuration location by using eclipse.exe -configuration %pathToUserWritableLocation% it copies a load of config files but not the p2 folder, which as far as I can tell contains the configuration settings related to automatic updates.

Re: Disable automatic updates [message #1792100 is a reply to message #1792097]

Wed, 11 July 2018 07:08

Eclipse User

I did a bit more research. I think if you look your installation you'll find file like this <eclipse>./plugins/org.eclipse.epp.package.*/plugin_customization.ini where the * name depends on which package you installed. In your case, epp.package.jee_<version>. I expect this file already contains properties like this:

# check for updates every Tuesday at 10am
# https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=421779
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk.scheduler/enabled=true
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk.scheduler/schedule=on-schedule
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk.scheduler/day=Every Tuesday
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk.scheduler/hour=10\:00 AM

Here you can change org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk.scheduler/enabled=true to org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk.scheduler/enabled=false. The should change the default for your read-only users of this application to be false initially.

Re: Disable automatic updates [message #1792196 is a reply to message #1792100]

Thu, 12 July 2018 09:24

Eclipse User

That works!

Thank you so much for your help, you've saved me many more hours of banging my head against the wall! :)

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