[orion-dev] Updating the orion server to new builds

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all,

While the orion server does not contain
any p2 bits, and we are not currently producing a stable p2 repository,
it is possible to update to new builds using p2 instead of manually downloading
new build zips.

Here is the command line I use to do
this:
eclipse -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director

        -repository http://build.eclipse.org/eclipse/e4/orion/N201102232000/buildRepo

        -u org.eclipse.orion -i
org.eclipse.orion 
        -d /eclipse/orion

This command is run using a normal eclipse
install, on windows you may want to use "eclipsec".  The
repository url will change for each build but has the general form shown
above with a changing build id.  The p2 director does not have an
"update" argument, so here we uninstalling (-u) the existing
version of orion, and installing (-i) a new one.  The -d argument
is the location of the orion install we are updating.  The expected
console output is something like:

Installing org.eclipse.orion 0.0.2.201102232002.
Uninstalling org.eclipse.orion 0.0.2.201102221029.
Operation completed in 11206 ms.


I have raised https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=338145,
and once we have a stable p2 repo url, I will update the wiki page with
instructions on upgrading your orion install this way, as well as updating
through PDE's target platform.

-Andrew