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Basic packages like jface or swt in eclipse p2 repositories - ? [message #791425]

Sun, 05 February 2012 15:16

Eclipse User

[sorry for non-highlighted links - angry forum engine prevents me from making them :/]

Hello, i am trying to automate downloading eclipse packages jars from eclipse repositories like download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo without needing to run eclipse IDE at all, but stuck here with no documentation and idea how to proceed.

With little effort and plenty of time i was able to wrap all eclipse <-> repo http traffic into my little transparent squid porxy; here is dialog when installing egit extention: paste.pocoo.org/show/546345/

It was helpful for get basic pattern of URL constructing; it is ${repoUrl}/${repoChildName}/aggregate/plugins/${packageName}_${packageVersion}.jar.pack.gz; but for some reason not all packages are available for such downloading (bot almost all, yes).

I am speaking about such basic packages like jface or swt, URLs constructed for them in that manner simply not working - server returns 404 on them.

It is also not possible to delete them and look at the dialog of eclipse downloading them because they are required for eclipse very functioning.

Any hints how to fetch such packages and fetch them for correct architecture (in case of SWT)?

Thank you.

Re: Basic packages like jface or swt in eclipse p2 repositories - ? [message #791497 is a reply to message #791425]

Sun, 05 February 2012 17:58

Eclipse User

P2 has several headless ant tasks. Check out the following page:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Ant_Tasks

There are some shell script wrappers at

http://github.com/briandealwis/p2-scripts

Re: Basic packages like jface or swt in eclipse p2 repositories - ? [message #791572 is a reply to message #791425]

Sun, 05 February 2012 20:47

Eclipse User

We use the b3 aggregator to perform tasks like that.
You create a model of what you want from where using an editor, and then
run that from the command line.

The model of p2 that is included is also very useful for writing
utilities that manipulate p2 data, or operates on repositories.

It may be total overkill depending on what you want to do.

Regards
- henrik

On 2012-05-02 21:16, Alexander Tumin wrote:
> [sorry for non-highlighted links - angry forum engine prevents me from
> making them :/]
>
> Hello, i am trying to automate downloading eclipse packages jars from
> eclipse repositories like download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo without
> needing to run eclipse IDE at all, but stuck here with no documentation
> and idea how to proceed.
>
> With little effort and plenty of time i was able to wrap all eclipse <->
> repo http traffic into my little transparent squid porxy; here is dialog
> when installing egit extention: paste.pocoo.org/show/546345/
>
> It was helpful for get basic pattern of URL constructing; it is
> ${repoUrl}/${repoChildName}/aggregate/plugins/${packageName}_${packageVersion}.jar.pack.gz;
> but for some reason not all packages are available for such downloading
> (bot almost all, yes).
>
> I am speaking about such basic packages like jface or swt, URLs
> constructed for them in that manner simply not working - server returns
> 404 on them.
>
> It is also not possible to delete them and look at the dialog of eclipse
> downloading them because they are required for eclipse very functioning.
>
> Any hints how to fetch such packages and fetch them for correct
> architecture (in case of SWT)?
>
> Thank you.

Re: Basic packages like jface or swt in eclipse p2 repositories - ? [message #791919 is a reply to message #791497]

Mon, 06 February 2012 07:22

Eclipse User

Thank you a lot! This p2-scripts set is exactly what i was missing for understanding basics of p2 repos structure. Though there is still a lot of dark places for me, but ultimately i see now the way of illuminating them.

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