[p2-dev] p2 categories and filters

[Nalini Ganapati <nalinig@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to filter out certain requirements
using filters from category IUs, but the UI(install and pde) seem to ignore
this. For example, installing test should filter out foo.win32 on a linux
platform, but I am not seeing that happen.

 <unit id='test' version='1.0.0.T20100823_1234'
singleton='false'>
      <properties
size='2'>
        <property
name='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.name' value='test'/>
        <property
name='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.type.category' value='true'/>
      </properties>
         
 <requires size='79'>
        <required
namespace='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu' name='foo.win32' range='0.0.0' optional='true'>
         
<filter>
         
  (&amp;(osgi.arch=x86)(osgi.os=win32)(osgi.ws=win32))
         
</filter>
        </required>
      </requires>



I am probably missing something, are
filters not supported for the category IUs? If this is a defect, I can
open a bug report and probably attach a patch too.

Thanks,
Nalini.