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Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Advice on update site problem?
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De nada, glad to help.
Nick
On 10/5/07, jograham@xxxxxxxxxx <jograham@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation, Nick, this is very helpful!
>
> We've identified one feature as missing the update URL, and added a policy
> file to our update site as well.
>
> Regards,
> John Graham
> Eclipse Data Tools Platform PMC Chair
> Staff Software Engineer, Sybase, Inc.
> http://dataplat.blogspot.com/
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> "Nick Boldt"
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> 10/04/2007 09:49 Re: [cross-project-issues-dev]
> PM Advice on update site problem?
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> Please respond to
> Cross project
> issues
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> sues-dev@eclipse.
> org>
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> > (1) Any ideas why the two search methods return different results? Did we
> > do something wrong on our update site?
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> If I'm not mistaken, the difference is that one will check the update
> URLs for each feature based on the information in those features'
> feature.xml files. The other is not beholden to checking anything
> that's already installed, and can do a full search, finding more.
>
> Generally, the solution I've put forth to people when the 'search for
> updates' fails is "don't use that, use 'search for new features'".
> It's sorta the old adage of "Doctor, it hurts when I do *this*" -- "So
> don't do *this*!" ;-)
>
> Chances are there's nothing wrong with your update site, but your
> features may be missing update URLs. You can force those features to
> be updated regardless of what's present using a policy file.
>
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Testing_Pre-Release_Builds_Via_Policy_Files
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> Hope that helps,
>
> --
> Nick Boldt :: Release Engineer, IBM Toronto Lab
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