Re: [tycho-user] Can I avoid the category.xml file for creating p2 updat

[Warren Paul <boonedogsoftware@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you're building a product then you already have a complete update site in target/repository/.  There's no need to use 'eclipse-repository' to generate another one that I can see, unless you want to control exactly what's in it, or categorize what's in it for the Eclipse UI.

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 5:26 AM Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Can Tycho generate the category.xml file based on the build input? I
think I saw this in the past somewhere in use, but can't re-find it.

Best regards, Lars

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 5:41 PM Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Mickael for the answer.
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 1:28 PM Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 1:08 PM Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> is the usage of a category file mandatory to create a p2 update with
> >> Tycho?
> >
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> I would like add everything from the Tycho build (including
> >> dependencies) to my update site without having to maintain the
> >> category file.
> >
> >
> > This cannot be done at the moment and implementing that would require some relatively big development effort in Tycho.
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