Re: [tycho-user] Not seeing repositories from feature.xml files in conte

["Oberlies, Tobias" <tobias.oberlies@xxxxxxx>]

Tycho's issue tracker is here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Tycho
Please attach a small sample project (if possible) and describe the expected outcome.

Regards
Tobias

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tycho-user-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnston
> Sent: Freitag, 18. November 2011 00:41
> To: tycho-user@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [tycho-user] Not seeing repositories from feature.xml files
> in content.xml/jar
> 
> On 11/15/2011 06:54 AM, Oberlies, Tobias wrote:
> > So there are different things which could happen:
> >
> > 1. When a user installs one of your features, your update site is added
> to the list of software sites. This should work out of the box when you
> build a feature with Tycho and have the corresponding field set in the
> feature.xml. IIRC, this doesn't work, so this may be worth a bug report.
> > 2. When a user contacts a repository, other repositories are also added
> to the list of software site. IMHO, this is the wrong approach. Why would
> I want updates of a project if I didn't install anything from the project?
> You say that this is the current behaviour of the Indigo release train
> site - but still I wouldn't want to support this in Tycho. IMHO, option 1
> is the way to go.
> > 3. When a user contacts your repository directly, all repositories to
> resolve dependencies are automatically added to the list of software
> sites. I would consider this concept as deprecated - a p2 composite
> repositories is what you should create in that case instead.
> >
> > So you wanted option 2 - but would option 1 be good enough for you as
> well?
> >
> 
> Yes, option 1 would be sufficient and you are correct in that it does
> not appear to work as evidenced by our missing update site in the
> available list on Indigo.  What component should a bug be opened against?
> 
> With some researching, it appears that all current tycho builds are
> ending up in the same boat as us.  The references tags in content.xml
> were obviously being added by pdebuild and they aren't being added for
> tycho builds.  The latest CDT builds no longer have the references since
> moving over to tycho.
> 
> -- Jeff J.