Re: [tycho-user] Pack200'd artifacts w/o unpacked ones?

["Sievers, Jan" <jan.sievers@xxxxxxx>]

>What's the best way to suggest an includeOnlyPackedArtifacts=true or
>excludeUnpackedArtifactIfPackedArtifactAvailable=true option when
>building an update site (p2 repo) with Tycho?

open an enhancement in bugzilla. note that mirroring in Tycho is delegated
to p2 right now so I suspect this eventually needs to be implemented in p2.
Also, you might ask the b3 aggregator people if their tool supports
mirroring packed artifacts only.

Jan



On 29/09/15 18:17, "tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Nick
Boldt" <tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of nboldt@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>What's the best way to suggest an includeOnlyPackedArtifacts=true or
>excludeUnpackedArtifactIfPackedArtifactAvailable=true option when
>building an update site (p2 repo) with Tycho?
>
>bugzilla? mailing list? PR against github repo?
>
>On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Nick Boldt <nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's more load on the client if you're installing from an offline
>> update site zip which includes both packed and unpacked artifacts,
>> because the zip is 40% larger than it needs to be. Users would be
>> downloading both sets of artifacts, then only ever using the pack.gz
>> ones.
>>
>> So your suggestion is build the site w/ all the jars (packed and
>> unpacked) then use p2.mirror to create a new, second site which
>> filters out the unpacked ones? I suppose that would be better than
>> building the whole site a second time (minus the profile to enable
>> pack200) and getting a timestamp that's a few minutes later.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Sievers, Jan <jan.sievers@xxxxxxx>
>>wrote:
>>> not that I know of.
>>> the mirror tool [1] also only has the option to include/exclude packed
>>> files (in addition to jars).
>>>
>>> BTW if I remember correctly the packed archive is the first one that is
>>> tried to be downloaded by p2 (fallback to plain jar only if no packed
>>> version available), so I don't think this will create extra load on the
>>> client. Only the server has some more jars which are mostly not needed.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jan
>>>
>>> [1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Additional_Tools#mirror_goal
>>>
>>> On 29/09/15 17:07, "tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Nick
>>> Boldt" <tycho-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of
>>>nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is there a way to create an update site with Tycho which EXCLUDES all
>>>>the duplicate .jar files for which there's an identical (but
>>>>pack200'd) .jar.pack.gz file?
>>>>
>>>>I'd like to optimize the size of our update sites (and update site
>>>>zips) and since no one is still using JDK 1.5 (our users need to be on
>>>>JDK 1.8 to use our tools), I figure we no longer need to include the
>>>>"backup" jars when there's a perfectly good and better compressed
>>>>pack.gz version.
>>>>
>>>>Had a look at https://wiki.eclipse.org/Tycho/Pack200 but there's no
>>>>mention of how to build ONLY the packed jars... just lots of ways to
>>>>ADD in the packed jars in addition to the unpacked ones.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Nick Boldt :: Productization Lead :: JBoss Tools & Dev Studio :: Red
>>>>Hat,
>>>>Inc.
>>>>http://nick.divbyzero.com
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