Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] p2 repositories ... we can do better

[Denis Roy <denis.roy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/06/2012 01:46 PM, Jesse McConnell wrote:
> heck ideally we could sign with a key that was signed by the
> foundation key for a web of trust and not have to do this build
> machine signing kludge

Hey, that sounds like fun.  Have you opened a bug?  Perhaps even provide
a small clue as to what it is you envision?


Thanks,

Denis


>
> anyway, we can add it to the signing plugin in the short term and hope
> tycho handles it later (or they might now, I don't know)
>
> or we can just see if tycho does it now and if not ask them nicely to
> add support for it...i don't mess with tycho enough to know what they
> do and don't do...I just figured that someone who really uses it would
> have found the option and chimed in by now.  There is time though, it
> will be a while til I can get to the plugin to tweak it so if someone
> did the research that would be grand
>
> jesse
>
> --
> jesse mcconnell
> jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:40, David Carver <d_a_carver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Honestly, the p2.Mirror URL and other items that get injected into the
>> artifacts.xml, p2.index, etc.  Really need to go into the Tycho P2
>> repository creation support.   The signing plugin shouldn't be the one doing
>> this stuff.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On 03/06/2012 12:35 PM, Jesse McConnell wrote:
>>> Not sure for tycho but given some time I could have that in the
>>> signing plugin in an hour or so I would think.
>>>
>>> I'll see if I can scrape some time together to get that support added
>>> in, at least in the interm until tycho could support it
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> jesse
>>>
>>> --
>>> jesse mcconnell
>>> jesse.mcconnell@xxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:25, Marcel Bruch<bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>  wrote:
>>>> On 06.03.2012, at 13:04, Jesse McConnell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> could the eclipse-signing-maven-plugin provide a parameter to
>>>>>> inject the p2.mirrorsURL property into artifact repositories and
>>>>>> parameters to generate the p2.index file ?
>>>>> can you give me a specific example of what that xml (assuming that
>>>>> would be in some of the xml metadata) would look like?
>>>> = Support for p2.mirrorsURL =
>>>>
>>>> According to http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/p2.mirrorsURL just add:
>>>>
>>>> <property name="p2.mirrorsURL"
>>>> value="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file={repository_path}&amp;format=xml"/>
>>>>
>>>> Since webmaster thinks that we have been hit by this issue recently
>>>> (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=373352) this makes me think
>>>> even more about how to integrate this into our builds. As last means of
>>>> resort I'll write a bash script that unzips artifacs.jar, adds the property
>>>> to the artifacts.xml, and zips the file again.
>>>>
>>>> But I wonder how much effort it takes to add this in Tycho's
>>>> eclipse-repository packaging since tycho generates these files?
>>>> It wouldn't be specify to Eclipse; just a generic support for properties
>>>> - I think.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> = Adding support for p2.index =
>>>>
>>>> The file looks like this:
>>>>
>>>>  version = 1
>>>>  metadata.repository.factory.order = compositeContent.xml,\!
>>>>  artifact.repository.factory.order = compositeArtifacts.xml,\!
>>>>
>>>> Whether it's "xml" or "jar" should depend on the "compress" property we
>>>> already specify in the eclipse-repository.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> = Enabling download stat in your repository =
>>>>
>>>> And if we are already on defining properties: to enable download stats
>>>> it's...
>>>>
>>>> ...for artifacts.xml/repository:
>>>> <property name='p2.statsURI' value='http://your.stats.server/stats'/>
>>>>
>>>> ...for bundles:
>>>> <property name='download.stats' value='test.plugin1.bundle'/>
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_download_stats
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So, in theory it's just adding properties and looks from outside like a
>>>> simple thing to do. But how long it takes to implement it - at least the
>>>> p2.mirrorsURL feature - I've no idea. But maybe a tycho committer knows
>>>> better?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  I suspect is
>>>>> possible but I also think it is probably more appropriate to have that
>>>>> support in tycho
>>>>>
>>>>> the signing plugin is really just a hack to support this aspect of the
>>>>> eclipse requirements that is outside of the traditional tycho
>>>>> workflow...having said that we can always put another hack or two into
>>>>> it :)
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> jesse
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Matthias
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>>>> Marcel
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