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P2 cant unpack plugin!? [message #559018]

Wed, 15 September 2010 10:44

Morty

Messages: 12
Registered: August 2010

Junior Member

Ive recently updated my plugin to take account of p2 installing. All is fine during installation, but i require my plugin jar to be unpacked during installation.

I believe this should be done in the p2 metadata, instead of the feature.xml (as it was previously).

Any ideas how to go about this??

Morty

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Re: P2 cant unpack plugin!? [message #559027 is a reply to message #559018]

Wed, 15 September 2010 11:08

Mickael Istria

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

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Hi,

Does your plugin have a Eclipse-BundleShape set to "dir" in its Manifest? It might help...
If it does not work you'll probably have to customize the script responsible of installing your bundle. See http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=53931 9&

HTH,

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Mickael Istria -- BonitaSoft S.A.
http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/BPM_download.php

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Re: P2 cant unpack plugin!? [message #559047 is a reply to message #559027]

Wed, 15 September 2010 12:50

Morty

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Registered: August 2010

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Hi.Mickael,

I tried that Bundleshape thing - no luck.
I had a read at that post you also mentioned - can you advise where the p2.inf should go (in the feature/plugin, and should it be referenced in the contents/artifcacts files?)?

Morty

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Re: P2 cant unpack plugin!? [message #559073 is a reply to message #559047]

Wed, 15 September 2010 13:37

Mickael Istria

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

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I never used p2.inf to customize our bundles, the best thing I can tell you is to have a look at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Customizing_Metadata
By the way, I think the BundleShape should be honored by p2 publisher which should generate automatically the metadata to unpack the bundle. This is worth opening a bug.

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Mickael Istria -- BonitaSoft S.A.
http://www.bonitasoft.com/products/BPM_download.php

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Re: P2 cant unpack plugin!? [message #559262 is a reply to message #559073]

Thu, 16 September 2010 08:19

Morty

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Registered: August 2010

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Turns out this can easily be done in the content.xml

Just set the following in the relevant touchpointData:

<instruction key='zipped'>
false
</instruction>

Is this content.xml documented anywhere, just out of curiousity - from my perspective there is a lot of rooting about in the dark!!

Morty

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