[p2-dev] Pack200 and Canonical Descriptor Issue

[Marcus R Kestler <marcus.kestler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
We are seeing a lot of P2 artifact repositories being produced that have only pack200 files in them. In the P2 artifact repository file, it still has an artifact descriptor for a canonical version of the artifact. Trying to get this canonical descriptor produces an exception.
The teams who own these claim that the P2 tooling is producing this. I had assumed they were just deleting their jar files. Does P2 do this? Will it add a canonical, invalid artifact descriptor when it produces a pack200 only repository?
Two examples of what I'm referring to are here:

http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/m2m/qvtoml/updates/milestones/plugins/
http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/ocl/3_0/updates/milestones/plugins/


Thanks.

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Marcus Kestler
Advisory Software Engineer
IBM Rational Capilano Group
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