Re: [tycho-user] How put generated resources files (txt, properties...)

[Mikhail Kalkov <mikhail.kalkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> A README in p2-root/ would be invisible to p2.
Exactly. So, one would have to invoke ant-runner to copy the README file to the repository file system, and even worse, p2-mirrorring tools will drop this file unless some manual intervention is done. Anyway, this is just a suggested use case, which I don't think is very important.

Meanwhile, I've found this article -- http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2009/02/19/p2-in-a-non-eclipse-system/ -- where Ian Bull states that one "can install your favorite RPMs, Debs or even MSI (Windows Installer) based applications using p2", but adds that he doesn't have any examples. I guess this is out of scope of the Tycho project though... :-)

/Mikhail

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias Oberlies" <tobias.oberlies@xxxxxxx>
To: "Tycho user list" <tycho-user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 11:41:25 AM
Subject: Re: [tycho-user] How put generated resources files (txt,	properties...) on update site?

Putting a README file into the repository file system is something totally different that publishing files into the repository. You need the latter if you want to get for example a README into an RCP application created by p2.

The former should be doable by putting the file into target/repository before the repository is zipped. A README in p2-root/ would be invisible to p2.

Regards
Tobias

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tycho-user-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mikhail Kalkov
> Sent: Freitag, 19. Oktober 2012 11:06
> To: Tycho user list
> Subject: Re: [tycho-user] How put generated resources files (txt,
> properties...) on update site?
> 
> No, I don't need such a feature, root files are more than enough for me
> right now. I am just curious if anybody has ever used p2 repositories to
> publish other kind of artifacts than OSGi bundles. After Pascal's reply
> and the examination of artifacts.xml structure I believe it should be
> possible, but have never seen it in practice. One potential use case I can
> think of is publishing README files with informal repository description
> aimed at human readers, e.g.
> p2-root
>   |-- artifacts.xml
>   |-- content.xml
>   |-- README
>   |-- features/
>   \-- plugins/
> 
> /Mikhail
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tobias Oberlies" <tobias.oberlies@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Tycho user list" <tycho-user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 8:04:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [tycho-user] How put generated resources files (txt,
> 	properties...) on update site?
> 
> See inline.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tycho-user-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mikhail Kalkov
> > Sent: Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2012 17:16
> > To: Tycho user list
> > Subject: Re: [tycho-user] How put generated resources files (txt,
> > properties...) on update site?
> >
> > Thanks for the correction regarding p2 repository content types, Pascal.
> > If I understood correctly, once mentioned in build.properties, a text
> file
> > will be packaged in a jar and information about it will be recorded in
> the
> > artifact repository during the build, and at install time it will be
> > automatically deployed. Is there a way to publish a text file directly
> > into a p2 repository, e.g. by defining it as an independent IU in p2.inf
> > file?
> 
> I am not aware of such a feature in p2, and it definitely doesn't exist in
> Tycho. This could be done, which would mean a new packaging type in Tycho.
> But the question is if this is really needed. For most people, attaching
> root files (i.e. arbitrary files anywhere, including the root, of an
> product installation) is sufficient. Can you not use feature root files?
> 
> > By the way, I've found this article informative when trying to
> understand
> > this question: http://chamibuddhika.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/installing-
> > configuration-files-with-p2-inf-feature-installation/
> >
> > /Mikhail
> >
> > P.S. Should this kind of questions be asked on the p2-dev mailing list
> > since there is no p2-user one?
> 
> :-)  Yes, asking user questions on p2-dev is okay. I believe that we at
> Tycho are an exception that we have a "reseved" dev mailing list. But with
> this particular problem, I think tycho-users will be more helpful.
> 
> 
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pascal Rapicault" <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "Tycho user list" <tycho-user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 4:02:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: [tycho-user] How put generated resources files (txt,
> > 	properties...) on update site?
> >
> > p2 will store and download anything as long as they are in a p2
> artifact.
> >
> > On 2012-10-16, at 4:15 AM, Mikhail Kalkov wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Eclipse update site is a p2 repository, which consists of three parts:
> > > - content.xml (or .jar, aka metadata repository)
> > > - artifacts.xml (or .jar, aka artifact repository)
> > > - OSGI bundles
> > >
> > > I believe you cannot throw in random files into an update site, they
> > have to be proper OSGI bundles and they have to be recorded both in the
> > artifacts.xml and content.xml. You can, however, add a readme file if
> you
> > want. Anyway, this has nothing to do with Maven or Tycho, and is a pure
> p2
> > question (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2). I think that if you want
> to
> > use a p2 repository as a general http server, you would be better off
> > setting up a proper web site. Otherwise, you may find it good enough to
> > package txt files as a part of your jars.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Mikhail Kalkov
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: e92-330cd@xxxxxxxxx
> > > To: "Tycho user list" <tycho-user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 9:26:55 AM
> > > Subject: [tycho-user] How put generated resources files (txt,
> > 	properties...) on update site?
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > we are building our product with tycho, and during build we generate
> > some txt files. Than we would like to put the binary jars on the update
> > site. To provide our product to someone else. But we need to provide
> also
> > that generated txt files. Coz the other side, needs to read(access) that
> > txt files.
> > >
> > > If there is another way how to share the generated files, i dont mind.
> > Is it possible to use our local m2 repository, where will be stored the
> > txt files?
> > >
> > > Please what is the proper steps to achieve that? Thank you
> > > D.
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