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RE: [p2-dev] Mirroring to proxy repositories

I have just added a bug for this:
 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=262005
 
Sorry it took so long.
 
Cheers,
 
Miles
 
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From: p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Arthorne
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I agree that being able to clear the mirrorsURL property makes sense. Can you enter a bug for that?

The two situations where the update site URLs in feature.xml are parsed are:

 - When contacting a legacy update site (site.xml, but no metadata.xml)
 - When installing bundles unzipped directly in eclipse/plugins or eclipse/dropins

If the feature.xml is being read in any other case, it would be a bug. One possibility that comes to mind is that if there is an I/O exception reading the metadata.xml it may fall back to reading the site.xml file. The best way to ensure this isn't happening is to get rid of your site.xml file if you still have one. This would mean your site won't be compatibile with Eclipse 3.3 or earlier.

There is more detail on how repositories get associated with an install here:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Repository_Association

John



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Mirroring does not copy the references but it does copy the mirrorsURL property. I think that this needs removing too to avoid potential 'contamination' of the P2 UI repo list with external sites.
 
Also it seems that external sites that are declared in feature.xml/url elements may somehow, under certain circumstances, be added to the P2 UI's list. However, I am still testing this and trying to get it reproducible.
 
HTH
 
Miles


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I didn't think mirroring copied those references. If they do, please open a bug.


Thanks,

John



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I'm considering filing an enhancement request about having an option to have the mirroring application to wipe out those references to external sites (so that mirror users don't have those externals refs added automatically).
Is this something that could be acceptable?

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2008/11/23 John Arthorne <
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This is likely caused by reference URLs in your mirrored metadata repository. Look for a section like this in the content.xml/content.jar file:


<references size='6'>

  <repository url='' type='0' options='0'/>

      ...


These references are added to the list of known repositories for the client when your repository is first loaded. Mirroring is controlled by a "p2.mirrorsURL" property in the artifact.xml file:


  <property name='p2.mirrorsURL' value='
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/eclipse/testUpdates&amp;format=xml'/>

Removing this property will stop p2 from using mirrors for that repository.


There is more information on how repositories are managed, and descriptions of some open problems we are working on in this area here:


http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Repository_Association

John



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Hi all,

I seem to remember the subject was discussed somewhere, but can't find the thread back. At the moment, we use the mirrorApp to mirror something like 10 public repositories (that's why I noticed and logged the bug about non-working merging feature that was corrected in the 3.5M3).

The mirroring works fine (still not using the merging, though).  But there's a problem : when I add the mirrored repository URL to my eclipse installation where I deleted all other repositories entries, I always end up having many repositories listed from the net.

The thing is: in the end, we wan't our developers to declare a unique Eclipse P2 repository that they'll use to update or install "supported" software... And at the moment, they could download it from the net directly and obtain a version we didn't test...

I guess those URL comes from the already installed plugins/features. So, how could we wipe them out, or ignore them or proxy them through our mirror every necessary time (and stop new mirrors from appearing automatically in the update interface...).

Is this something considered possible with P2? If so, could you please let me know how to do that?

Thanks a lot.
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