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building p2 headless without a product/application [message #655100]

Fri, 18 February 2011 10:27

Ch. S.

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Hi guys!

I guess this should be a simple one for you experts out there ..

I have several plug-ins and features which I want to deliver with p2. But there is no product nor an application in these plug-ins.

I can build these features in Eclipse with buckminster or with the export wizard. But how can I achieve this headless?

tia

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Re: building p2 headless without a product/application [message #655127 is a reply to message #655100]

Fri, 18 February 2011 12:54

Paul Webster

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On 02/18/2011 05:27 AM, Ch. S. wrote:
> Hi guys!
> I guess this should be a simple one for you experts out there ..
> I have several plug-ins and features which I want to deliver with p2.
> But there is no product nor an application in these plug-ins.
> I can build these features in Eclipse with buckminster or with the
> export wizard. But how can I achieve this headless?

You build using eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_xxx/scripts/build.xml

The you create a "master feature" that includes all of your features,
and build that.

PW

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Re: building p2 headless without a product/application [message #655132 is a reply to message #655127]

Fri, 18 February 2011 13:05

Ch. S.

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that sounds like building a feature containing my features .. but that's too easy. Wink

1) I want to build a update site not a feature.
2) It shall be build headless.

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Re: building p2 headless without a product/application [message #655145 is a reply to message #655132]

Fri, 18 February 2011 13:46

Paul Webster

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On 02/18/2011 08:05 AM, Ch. S. wrote:
> that sounds like building a feature containing my features .. but that's
> too easy. ;)
>
> 1) I want to build a update site not a feature.
> 2) It shall be build headless.

Yes, it's building a feature of features. The output of the build (if
you have the p2 properties set) is a p2 repo that contains your features.

PW

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Re: building p2 headless without a product/application [message #655152 is a reply to message #655145]

Fri, 18 February 2011 13:59

Ch. S.

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Cool. That sounds straight-forward.

Pardon my noobness, but

1) how do I call
eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.pde.build_xxx/scripts/build.xml
outside of Eclipse?

2) how do I set the p2 property?

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Re: building p2 headless without a product/application [message #655159 is a reply to message #655152]

Fri, 18 February 2011 14:12

Paul Webster

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You have to setup a PDE build. There are some links at the end of this
post that describe it.

This is a simple builder that builds a master feature:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/viewvc.cgi/platform-incubator /ui/org.eclipse.ui.automated.build/org.eclipse.ui.releng/bui lder/

Helpful links:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-PDE-Automation/autom ation.html

PDE Build help: http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?nav=/4_2_0

Andrew's blogs: http://aniefer.blogspot.com/

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Re: building p2 headless without a product/application [message #655169 is a reply to message #655100]

Fri, 18 February 2011 14:36

Henrik Lindberg

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If you already build with Buckminster you can build it headless with
Buckminster as well. To build a p2 site, you define a feature that
defines the content of the site (does by default not include itself).

There are various variations on this theme depending on what you want to
achieve - check out the buckminster forum, there are many posts about
headless builds, automated builds etc.

- henrik

On 2/18/11 11:27 AM, Ch. S. wrote:
> Hi guys!
> I guess this should be a simple one for you experts out there ..
> I have several plug-ins and features which I want to deliver with p2.
> But there is no product nor an application in these plug-ins.
> I can build these features in Eclipse with buckminster or with the
> export wizard. But how can I achieve this headless?
>
> tia

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