[p2-dev] Re: how can the user be stopped from uninstalling an RCP applic

[Edoardo Comar <ECOMAR@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Pascal,
considering that the product is built headless in
two stages (see below) :
can you just please tell explicitly when and where
(in which file) should I set that property ?

1)
           
    <java jar="${launcher.jar}" jvm="${javaexec}"
fork="true" failonerror="true">
           
            <jvmarg value="-Xms256m"
/>
           
            <jvmarg value="-Xmx768m"
/>
           
            <arg line="-clean"
/>
           
            <arg line="-application
org.eclipse.ant.core.antRunner" />
           
            <arg line="-buildfile
${productBuild.xml}" />
           
            <arg line="-Dbuilder=@{build}"
/>
           
            <arg value="-Dproduct=@{product}"
/>
           
            <arg value="-Dconfigs=${configs}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-DbuildDirectory=@{build}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-DbaseLocation=@{eclipse}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-DbuildType=${buildType}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-DbuildId=${buildId}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-DarchivePrefix=${buildId}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-DforceContextQualifier=${qualifier}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-DjavacDebugInfo=true"
/>
           
            <arg line="-DjavacVerbose=false"
/>
           
            <arg line="-DjavacSource='1.5'"
/>
           
            <arg line="-DjavacTarget='1.5'"
/>
           
            <arg line="-Dgenerate.p2.metadata=true"
/>
           
            <arg line="-Dp2.metadata.repo=file:@{repository}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-Dp2.artifact.repo=file:@{repository}"
/>
           
            <arg value="-Dp2.metadata.repo.name=@{repositoryName}"
/>
           
            <arg value="-Dp2.artifact.repo.name=@{repositoryName}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-Dp2.flavor=tooling"
/>
           
            <arg line="-Dp2.publish.artifacts=true"
/>
           
    </java>

2) 
           
    <java jar="${launcher.jar}" fork="true"
jvm="${javaexec}" failonerror="true">
           
            <jvmarg value="-Xms256m"
/>
           
            <jvmarg value="-Xmx768m"
/>
           
            <jvmarg value="-Declipse.p2.data.area=@{build}/@{product}/p2"
/>
           
            <arg line="-clean"
/>
           
            <arg line="-application
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director.app.application" />
           
            <arg line="-consoleLog"
/>
           
            <arg line="-metadataRepository
file:@{repository}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-artifactRepository
file:@{repository}"
/>
           
            <arg line="-installIU
@{product}" />
           
            <arg line="-profile
@{product}" />
           
            <arg line="-destination
@{build}/@{product}" />
           
            <arg line="-bundlepool
@{build}/@{product}" />
           
            <arg line="-p2.os
@{os}" />
           
            <arg line="-p2.ws
@{ws}" />
           
            <arg line="-p2.arch
@{arch}" />
           
            <arg value="-roaming"
/>
           
            <arg line="-profileProperties
org.eclipse.update.install.features=true" />
           
    </java>



> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:28:09 -0400
> From: Pascal Rapicault <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [p2-dev] 
> To: P2 developer discussions <p2-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>When you are doing the initial installation of the application, 
>make sure you set the installable unit property
IInstallableUnit.PROP_PROFILE_LOCKED_IU to IInstallableUnit.LOCK_UNINSTALL
> when you are installing the IU. 
>Note that this currently can not be done from
the director app, 
>but we are welcoming any contribution to bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=227688

>Hi
>The software updates menu in our p2-enabled RCP
application allows the user to uninstall itself (the RCPapp not the user
:-).
>The result is an unusable / unstartable workbench
!
>How can this be prevented ?
>--------------------------------------------------
>regards,
>Edoardo Comar

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