Re: [p2-dev] Can I change the location to extract features during provis

[Dileepa Jayakody <dileepa@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Does P2 create /features, /plugins directories relative to org.eclipse.equinox.p2.installFolder location during provisioning?
If so can I override this location at runtime?
Can I do this by defining the org.eclipse.equinox.p2.installFolder=@config.dir/../../ in config.ini?

Really appreciate if someone can shed some light on how p2 decides the location to create /features, /plugins directories during provisioning.

Thanks,
Dileepa

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Dileepa Jayakody <dileepa@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

How does p2 calculate the location to extract features during provisioning? Is it relative to the osgi.install.area?
The issue I'm facing is, some of the features to install have file-copy instructions in it's p2.infs, and the source files are copied from the features extracted to target directories.
The target distribution contains multiple profiles and their configuration areas defined separately, in below format.

target
|-plugins
|-features
|-p2 {shared p2}
|--ProfileA 

|    |-configuration
|       /config.ini
|       /org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info
|--ProfileB
|    |-configuration
|       /config.ini
|       /org.eclipse.equinox.simpleconfigurator/bundles.info

 
During build phase when we install features via p2-director giving -destination as target/${Profile}.
Then the installing features are extracted to target/features and the relative path to the extracted feature will be ${installFolder}/../features; this works fine using p2-director, and necessary files get copied during build phase.
But during runtime when we do a feature installation using P2-provisioning agent, the features are extracted in target/${Profile}/features and the relative path to source file (${installFolder}/../features) in above file-copy instruction gets invalid.

Is it possible to configure the place to extract features at runtime? Can I explicitly specify the location to extract features to ProvisioningAgent?
Any help for this is really appreciated as I'm kind of stuck here.

Thanks,
Dileepa

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