Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] publishing and maintaining a composite up

[Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

For JustJ I over-engineered a solution that works on JIRO:

https://www.eclipse.org/justj/?page=developer

It helps maintain/generate composites like the ones linked from this page:

https://download.eclipse.org/justj/www/?page=download

E.g., the "Generating the JRE p2 Update Site" section.


On 05.02.2021 12:05, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Thank you Christian!
>
> For sure it's a good starting point, but it's completely shell-based, 
> which might be hard to adapt and IMHO error-prone... I'd rather have 
> something completely embedded in the Maven build (as I was doing in 
> the past).
>
> In any case, thanks again, I'll study that.
>
> Let's see if anyone else has further suggestions...
>
> cheers
>     Lorenzo
>
> On 05/02/21 11:44, Christian Dietrich wrote:
> > Hi, maybe you can recycle the Xtext approach
> >
> > https://github.com/eclipse/xtext-umbrella/blob/5f10d83c2c11dc82dbcf4437206bd568e317da9c/releng/jenkins/sign-and-deploy/Jenkinsfile#L245 
> >
> >
> > https://github.com/eclipse/xtext-umbrella/blob/master/releng/jenkins/sign-and-deploy/scripts/create_composite_update_site.sh 
> >
> >
> > ~Christian
> >
> > Am 05.02.21 um 11:40 schrieb Lorenzo Bettini:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > for my Eclipse projects built on and released from Hudson, and then
> > > JIPP, I was using a working releng mechanism to publish and update
> > > composite p2 sites for my Eclipse projects, EMF Parsley and Xsemantics
> > > (completely automated from the Maven/Tycho build).
> > >
> > > JIRO completely broke this mechanism since there's no direct access to
> > > the download area. Looks like I'm not the only one complaining about
> > > that (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=558735) and looks
> > > like "mounted download folders" are not yet available.
> > >
> > > Of course, I can come up with a different strategy, copying some
> > > metadata locally in the JIRO runner, update it, then put it back, but
> > > it'll surely take me some time (especially because I seem to
> > > understand that in JIRO workspaces are completely ephemeral so
> > > everything is lost, making debugging a nightmare I guess), which I'd
> > > rather save at the moment.
> > >
> > > So I'm wondering if anyone else has a working solution that can be
> > > easily reused?
> > > I'm also taking the chance to ask (once again) if "mounted download
> > > folders" can be provided (now that a year has passed).
> > >
> > > Of course I'd be OK with other solutions, from other supported CIs,
> > > but I guess it's only possible to publish p2 sites from JIRO, is it?
> > >
> > > thanks in advance
> > >      Lorenzo
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