Thank you for the time and the answer. It helped a lot to resolve the emerged conflicts in my understanding of CUs.
Since this fix probably wouldn’t be of community interest in short term, I would like to summarize the problem and your comments in order to be available and easily accessible in future. Should I open a new bug?
This issue made me think that it would be useful to have a central p2 architecture wiki capturing p2 components and their responsibilities. There’s plenty of information on that (community presentations, discussions, bugs, etc) but it’s difficult to find and put these pieces together.
I don’t know if Eclipse provides some guidelines how to document that, but if you think it would be useful and have an idea how to organize that, I could try gathering what’s available (please advice how to proceed if this is the case).
Kind regards,
Katya
From: p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pascal Rapicault
Sent: mercredi 14 décembre 2011 04:25
To: P2 developer discussions
Subject: Re: [p2-dev] Bundle start configuration
Took me a long time to understand what you were getting at, as at first I thought you had an IU and a CU.
I agree that in the case you describe, where an IU carries touchpoint data and there is also a CU attached to it, the behaviour is bogus.
As for right fix (which does not require the previous bug to be fixed), I don't think the attachment logic is the right place and for two reasons:
- The attachment logic should only deal with matching a CU to an IU. The touchpoint data is the business of the engine. Fixing this in here would mean coding in the resolver some specific knowledge about the shape of the metadata for a bundle (in this case the fact that there is manifest, etc) and would not work for any other case.
- Dropping the default CU or any CU when there is something in the main IU would not be very flexible, and I can see how someone would be able to complement someone's data through a CU.
IMO, a more appropriate solution would consists in enhancing the engine and the touchpoint data to allow each instructions section to declare the expected behaviour when the situation arises. At this point I could see several keys: before, after, override, delegate that would control this (as I'm writing this I'm sure we can find better wording in the AspectJ literature). For example, override would say that the value in the CU would override what is specified in the IU; delegate would mean run whatever is in the IU and ignore what is in me the CU; before and after meaning run the CU in addition to the other instructions.
On 2011-12-09, at 9:30 AM, Todorova, Katya wrote:
I can’t think of more specific requirement than the one belowJ
It seems my idea of CUs is not consistent so I would appreciate a little help here.
Having touchpoint data doesn’t lead to creation of CU, right? On the other hand, instruction parser merges info coming from touchpointdata and attached CU.
So from my point of view having touchpoint instructions and applicable fragment is the only currently possible case where two “fragments” are attached. So, they get merged and the result is bizarre.
Isn’t it local touchpoint data the most specific case? Is there a conceptual difference between CU and touchpoint data?
Until the bug you mention is fixed, isn’t it better not to attach any CUs if there’s other touchpoint data than manifest details?
<unit id='test' version='1.0.2' singleton='false'>
<update id=' test ' range='[0.0.0,1.0.2)' severity='0'/>
<property name='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.name' value='test'/>
<provided namespace='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.iu' name='test' version='1.0.2'/>
<provided namespace='osgi.bundle' name='test' version='1.0.2'/>
<provided namespace='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.eclipse.type' name='bundle' version='1.0.0'/>
<required namespace='java.package' name='org.osgi.framework' range='1.5.0'/>
<required namespace='java.package' name='org.eclipse.osgi.framework.console' range='0.0.0'/>
<artifact classifier='osgi.bundle' id='test' version='1.0.2'/>
<touchpoint id='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.osgi' version='1.0.0'/>
<touchpointData size='1'>
<instruction key='manifest'>
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-Activator: Activator
Bundle-RequiredExecutionEnvironment: JavaSE-1.6
Import-Package: org.osgi.framework;version="1.5",org.eclipse.osgi.framework.console
Bundle-Name: test
Manifest-Version: 1.0
Build-Jdk: 1.6.0_07
Bundle-SymbolicName: test
Bundle-Version: 1.0.2 

<instruction key='unconfigure'>
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.setStartLevel(startLevel:-1);org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.markStarted(started:false);
<instruction key='configure'>
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.setStartLevel(startLevel:3);org.eclipse.equinox.p2.touchpoint.eclipse.markStarted(started:true);
From: p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pascal Rapicault
Sent: vendredi 9 décembre 2011 14:56
To: P2 developer discussions
Subject: Re: [p2-dev] Bundle start configuration
My guess is that this is because the CU requirements on the IU are not specific enough and this causes the fragment to not be attached. The code is in the director AttachmentHelper.
On 2011-12-08, at 10:41 AM, Todorova, Katya wrote:
I’m trying to install in Eclipse a bundle published with touchpoint instructions for start level = 3 & start = true (I use p2.inf in bundle META-INF to describe these).
As a result I get a strange mix of the local configuration and default bundle tooling presented in Eclipse – start level is 4 and start flag is true in the final bundles.info.
I assumed that local configuration would be preferred over the default one but it seems it’s not the case. What would be the correct behavior according to you?
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