[cross-project-issues-dev] How do I Generate p2 metadata w/ Category inf

[Eric Gwin <eric.gwin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I thought I'd seen this topic before, but now cannot seem to find it.
I'm hoping someone out there can help. I'm trying to generate some 
category info for our project P2 repositories with no luck.
I've tried just about every combination of parameters I can think of 
with the metadata generator, and it generates the P2 fine, but no 
category info.
I am building directly from ANT. I've tried having the site.url point to 
a local file (not in repository) - no luck. I've also tried copying the 
site file to the repos and using that location as the site url - again 
no luck.
At this point I'm wondering if I'm using the right tool, or if the M6/M7 
generator has a bug, or I'm missing something else big. Is anyone out 
there manually generating categories for P2, if so what tools are you using?

Below is the latest metadata command-line I'm using, and the Site.xml file.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

-Eric

ANT Snippet:

   <!-- Tool definitions -->
   <property name="p2.SDK.install.dir" value="C:\eclipseSDK\eclipse"/>
   <property name="p2.SDK.plugin.dir" 
value="${p2.SDK.install.dir}\plugins"/>
   <property name="p2.generator.jar" 
value="org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.generator_*.jar"/>
   <property name="p2.launcher.jar" 
value="org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_*.jar"/>
   <!-- Input definitions -->
   <property name="p2.base.dir"         value="C:\__AA_TestRepos"/>
   <property name="p2.feature.dir"      value="${p2.base.dir}/features"/>
   <property name="p2.bundle.dir"       value="${p2.base.dir}/plugins"/>
   <property name="site.dir"            
value="${feature.build.location}/${classes.dir}"/>
   <property name="site.url"            value="file:${site.dir}/site.xml"/>
   <!-- Output definitions -->
   <property name="p2.repository.url"       value="file:/${p2.base.dir}"/>
   <property name="P2.release.repos.name"   value="EclipseLink 
Repository"/>
   <property name="metadata.repos.name"     
value="&quot;${P2.release.repos.name}&quot;"/>
   <property name="artifact.repos.name"     value="&quot;EclipseLink 
Artifacts&quot;"/>

   <target name="generate-p2-repos">
       <echo message="Site url='${site.url}'"/>
       <!-- Metadata generator apparently doesn't rebuild the artifact 
and content xml files if they already exist -->
       <delete  failonerror="false">
           <fileset dir="${p2.base.dir}" includes="artifact*.*, 
content*.*"/>
       </delete>
       <java classname="org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main" fork="true" 
timeout="10800000" taskname="p2"
           jvm="${java.home}/bin/java" failonerror="false" 
maxmemory="256m">
           <classpath>
               <fileset dir="${p2.SDK.plugin.dir}"
                   includes="${p2.launcher.jar},
                             ${p2.generator.jar}"/>
               <pathelement location="${p2.SDK.plugin.dir}" />
           </classpath>
           <arg line=" -application 
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.generator.EclipseGenerator" />
           <arg line=" -updateSite ${p2.base.dir}/ -site ${site.url}" />
           <arg line=" -source ${p2.base.dir}/ -features 
${p2.feature.dir}/ -bundles ${p2.bundle.dir}/" />
           <arg line=" -metadataRepository ${p2.repository.url}/ 
-metadataRepositoryName ${metadata.repos.name}" />
           <arg line=" -artifactRepository ${p2.repository.url}/ 
-artifactRepositoryName ${artifact.repos.name}" />
           <arg line=" -compress -reusePack200Files" />
       </java>
   </target>

Site.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<site pack200="true">
  <description
     url="file:/C:/__AA_TestRepos">
     EclipseLink Milestones: contains runtime and source features for 
JPA, MOXy and SDO components
  </description>
  <feature 
url="features/org.eclipse.persistence.jpa_1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar" 
id="org.eclipse.persistence.jpa" version="1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar">
     <category name="EclipseLink 1.1.2-M1"/>
  </feature>
  <feature 
url="features/org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.source_1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar" 
id="org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.source" version="1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar">
     <category name="EclipseLink 1.1.2-M1"/>
  </feature>
  <feature 
url="features/org.eclipse.persistence.moxy_1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar" 
id="org.eclipse.persistence.moxy" version="1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar">
     <category name="EclipseLink 1.1.2-M1"/>
  </feature>
  <feature 
url="features/org.eclipse.persistence.moxy.source_1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar" 
id="org.eclipse.persistence.moxy.source" 
version="1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar">
     <category name="EclipseLink 1.1.2-M1"/>
  </feature>
  <feature 
url="features/org.eclipse.persistence.sdo_1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar" 
id="org.eclipse.persistence.sdo" version="1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar">
     <category name="EclipseLink 1.1.2-M1"/>
  </feature>
  <feature 
url="features/org.eclipse.persistence.sdo.source_1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar" 
id="org.eclipse.persistence.sdo.source" version="1.1.2.v20090515-r4235.jar">
     <category name="EclipseLink 1.1.2-M1"/>
  </feature>
  <category-def name="EclipseLink 1.1.2-M1" label="EclipseLink 1.1.2-M1"/>
</site>