| Re: EGit update site broken? [message #1780911 is a reply to message #1780781] |
Mon, 29 January 2018 16:57   |
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Hi. It means that I performed the following steps:
(This is on macOS Sierra, if it matters)
1. log in as a new fresh (non admin) user (no ~/.eclipse, or ~/.p2 or any trace of Eclipse on it)
2. downloaded the basic Eclipse platform package (http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.7.2-201711300510/download.php?dropFile=eclipse-platform-4.7.2-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.dmg); (Also tried with the Eclipse SDK and got the same results)
3. started it; fresh new workspace
4. went to Install New Software
5. clicked on [Add...] and added the p2 info for EGit, with url http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates
6. clicked [OK].
7. from the drop-down list of repos I selected the new EGit repo
Then I got a dialog with the error message:
Unable to read repository at http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates.
Unable to read repository at http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates.
Input is not in the XZ format
I may be behind a company proxy, but this does not occur in my normal user. The only difference that I see is that my normal user has admin rights and have previously installed (several versions of) Eclipse.
After searching a bit more the forums and bugzilla, I see that others have run into similar issues (e.g. Bug 516602, Bug 515359, Msg 1763841, Msg 1764934), and suggestions that there might be a network issue on my end, others on the Eclipse servers, and other suggest it might have something to do with the local p2 cache, but there doesn't seem to be a satisfactory answer.
Since this is for a new fresh user, which doesn't have a ~/.eclipse folder, it cannot be the cache issue.
It doesn't seem to be an Eclipse server issue since it seems to work for you.
So maybe it's a network issue on my end, but how, if it works on one user but not the other? And if it was a network issue, why do other update sites seem to work fine even for the fresh new user?
Could it be an issue with p2 itself?
Thanks
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