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Re: [p2-dev] how to make p2 install fail gracefully

I filed this bug:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=332158

I'm hoping that at a minimum, there can be a better error message in
this situation, but a better solution would be allowing this kind of
install to succeed.

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Happy Holidays!
>
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> I did. I'm on vacation now. I'll get back to you in a couple of days
>> when I am back. Thanks.
>>
>> On Thursday, December 23, 2010, Pascal Rapicault <pascal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Where are we at on that? Did you open a bug?
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> > Here's what I have so far:
>> >
>> > 1. Unzip your favorite Eclipse distro of 3.6.1 (I used
>> > eclipse-SDK-3.6.1-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar.gz)
>> > 2. chmod -R 555 eclipse (or the appropriate variant on windows)
>> > 3. Start eclipse
>> > 4. open update manager
>> > 5. Add update site
>> > http://dist.codehaus.org/groovy/distributions/greclipse/snapshot/e3.6/
>> > 6. Try to install.
>> >
>> > I get the error below.  It doesn't say anywhere (or at least it's not
>> > saying it to me) that this is failing because of a read-only problem.
>> >
>> > Now, some users are able to "successfully" install, but on restart it
>> > looks like JDT has been uninstalled (specifically, the
>> > org.eclipse.jdt.core line has been deleted from the bundles.info
>> > file).   Perhaps this is a windows-only problem.  I haven't been able
>> > to track it down exactly yet.
>> >
>> > Cannot complete the install because of a conflicting dependency.
>> >   Software being installed: Groovy-Eclipse Feature
>> > 2.1.1.xx-20101124-2100-e36
>> > (org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.feature.feature.group
>> > 2.1.1.xx-20101124-2100-e36)
>> >   Software currently installed: Shared profile 1.0.0.1284044844810
>> > (SharedProfile_SDKProfile 1.0.0.1284044844810)
>> >   Only one of the following can be installed at once:
>> >     Java Development Tools Core 3.6.1.xx-20101124-2100-e36
>> > (org.eclipse.jdt.core 3.6.1.xx-20101124-2100-e36)
>> >     Java Development Tools Core 3.6.1.v_A68_R36x (org.eclipse.jdt.core
>> > 3.6.1.v_A68_R36x)
>> >   Cannot satisfy dependency:
>> >     From: Shared profile 1.0.0.1284044844810 (SharedProfile_SDKProfile
>> > 1.0.0.1284044844810)
>> >     To: org.eclipse.jdt.core [3.6.1.v_A68_R36x]
>> >   Cannot satisfy dependency:
>> >     From: Shared profile 1.0.0.1284044844810 (SharedProfile_SDKProfile
>> > 1.0.0.1284044844810)
>> >     To: org.eclipse.jdt.feature.group
>> > [3.6.1.r361_v20100714-0800-7z8XFUSFLFlmgLc5z-Bvrt8-HVkH]
>> >   Cannot satisfy dependency:
>> >     From: Groovy-Eclipse Feature 2.1.1.xx-20101124-2100-e36
>> > (org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.feature.feature.group
>> > 2.1.1.xx-20101124-2100-e36)
>> >     To: org.codehaus.groovy.jdt.patch.feature.group
>> > [2.1.1.xx-20101124-2100-e36]
>> >   Cannot satisfy dependency:
>> >     From Patch: org.codehaus.groovy.jdt.patch.feature.group
>> > 2.1.1.xx-20101124-2100-e36 Eclipse Java Development Tools
>> > 3.6.1.r361_v20100714-0800-7z8XFUSFLFlmgLc5z-Bvrt8-HVkH
>> > (org.eclipse.jdt.feature.group
>> > 3.6.1.r361_v20100714-0800-7z8XFUSFLFlmgLc5z-Bvrt8-HVkH)
>> >     To: org.eclipse.jdt.core [3.6.1.xx-20101124-2100-e36]
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >> I believe that this is a problem with feature patches specifically.  I
>> >> was aware of the shared install bug that was fixed for 3.6.1, but it
>> >> doesn't seem to have fixed the feature patches issue (it only made
>> >> diagnosing the problem more cryptic :( ).  I have not actually
>> >> reproduced this on my machine.  I just know from users that when they
>> >> changed their install directory to writable, then they were able to
>> >> install groovy-eclipse.
>> >>
>> >> If there's not a straightforward solution, then should I write up some
>> >> steps to reproduce and raise a bug?
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Ian Bull <irbull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> Andrew,
>> >>> This should work (install in a read-only directory). In this case,
>> >>> Eclipse
>> >>> actually does the install ~<username>/.eclipse.  Of course, if that is
>> >>> also
>> >>> read-only, then we are probably out of luck.
>> >>> There was a bug in 3.6.0 that caused some problems, but that was fixed
>> >>> in
>> >>> 3.6.1.
>> >>> So a few questions, are you using 3.6.1? If you are using 3.6.1, are
>> >>> the
>> >>> results predictable (or do you get different behavior  based on the
>> >>> weather
>> >>> ;)?  I wonder if there is a problem with feature-patches and shared
>> >>> installs.
>> >>> cheers,
>> >>> ian
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Andrew Eisenberg <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Hi all,
>> >
>> >
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