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How to create update site without rebuilding all features? [message #1852624]

Fri, 27 May 2022 15:24

Denis Nikiforov

Messages: 337
Registered: August 2013

Senior Member

Hi

I have an application with a lot of features. I can add all these features to an update site project and build it. The problem is that all of the features has a new build date and all of them will be updated in the application.

Is it possible to create an update site without rebuilding all features? So only changed features are updated. For example https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2021-03/ contains bundles with different build dates. How to achieve it?

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Re: How to create update site without rebuilding all features? [message #1852630 is a reply to message #1852624]

Sat, 28 May 2022 05:44

Ed Merks

Messages: 32834
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Mostly these days folks build with Maven/Tycho and build an update site with a category.xml. Tycho has things like this

        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId>
          <artifactId>tycho-packaging-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>${tycho-version}</version>
          <configuration>
            <format>'v'yyyyMMdd-HHmm</format>
            <sourceReferences>
              <generate>true</generate>
            </sourceReferences>
            <timestampProvider>jgit</timestampProvider>
            <jgit.ignore>pom.xml</jgit.ignore>
            <jgit.dirtyWorkingTree>warning</jgit.dirtyWorkingTree>
            <additionalFileSets>
              <fileSet>
                <directory>${project.build.outputDirectory}</directory>
                <includes>
                  <include>about.mappings</include>
                </includes>
              </fileSet>
            </additionalFileSets>
          </configuration>

which uses https://www.eclipse.org/tycho/sitedocs/tycho-packaging-plugin/build-qualifier-aggregator-mojo.html to compute the timestamp based on git commits in the tree...

Ed Merks
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