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Re: [p2-dev] Provisioning p2 with p2?
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Hi,
The profiles are stored in a ProfileRegistry - and the implementation
used in p2 stores the profiles under "engine". Snoop around under the
"p2" directory in your stand alone Eclipse SDK installation, or under
user.home/.p2 if you tried a SharedInstall.
Henrik Lindberg
henrik.lindberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Feb 25, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Fredrik Alströmer wrote:
Excellent, that's what I wanted to hear... Now I only need to figure
out how to do this... ;)
For the second part, that's what I meant, I was just curious whether
an external p2 system (which is creating the profile) is actually able
to convey information to the profile about IUs being installed and so
on. I wasn't able to find a meta data repository (i.e. a description
of the installed IUs) - only an artifact repository - in the profile I
installed into, how does the p2 instance within the created profile
know what it contains? Or does it simply backtrack and look for
matching IUs to the artifacts?
Or am I simply missing some magic here? :)
Thanks,
Fredrik.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:01, John Arthorne
<John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Absolutely, p2 can and does do that. In fact our Eclipse project
builds run
exactly in this way - p2 ant tasks are used to create a profile,
into which
the platform or Eclipse SDK is provisioned. The result is then
zipped up and
delivered on our downloads page. Also, once you have installed the
platform
(which includes p2), p2 will manage and be able to upgrade that
(including
itself). p2 can manage a system that is not currently running, or
it can
manage a system that it is currently running inside of.
What you read about who touches what might have been taken out of
context.
What that means is that if the user unzips stuff manually into
eclipse/plugins or eclipse/dropins, then it is the user's
responsibility to
"manage" those plugins manually at the file system level (upgrade
it, remove
it, etc). p2 won't touch them. Things that have been provisioned into
eclipse/plugins or elsewhere by p2 via the user interface or
command line
tools shouldn't be manually edited/removed at the file system level
by the
end user (just like you don't manually move/delete DLL's from
Windows apps
and expect them to continue working).
Fredrik Alströmer <roe@xxxxxxx>
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[p2-dev] Provisioning p2 with p2?
Hi,
I think I read somewhere that, whatever is managed by p2 you
shouldn't
touch, and whatever you manage p2 won't touch. This makes perfect
sense, however there's one thing that's not completely clear to me.
Is
it one of the purposes of p2 to be able to create a new profile
(using
p2, that is, like with the p2 agent), install p2 into that profile,
and then let it manage itself?
Thanks,
Fredrik.
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