Re: [p2-dev] Provisioning p2 with p2?

[Fredrik Alströmer <roe@xxxxxxx>]

Excellent, that's what I wanted to hear... Now I only need to figure
out how to do this... ;)

For the second part, that's what I meant, I was just curious whether
an external p2 system (which is creating the profile) is actually able
to convey information to the profile about IUs being installed and so
on. I wasn't able to find a meta data repository (i.e. a description
of the installed IUs) - only an artifact repository - in the profile I
installed into, how does the p2 instance within the created profile
know what it contains? Or does it simply backtrack and look for
matching IUs to the artifacts?

Or am I simply missing some magic here? :)

Thanks,
Fredrik.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 15:01, John Arthorne <John_Arthorne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Absolutely, p2 can and does do that. In fact our Eclipse project builds run
> exactly in this way - p2 ant tasks are used to create a profile, into which
> the platform or Eclipse SDK is provisioned. The result is then zipped up and
> delivered on our downloads page. Also, once you have installed the platform
> (which includes p2), p2 will manage and be able to upgrade that (including
> itself). p2 can manage a system that is not currently running, or it can
> manage a system that it is currently running inside of.
>
> What you read about who touches what might have been taken out of context.
> What that means is that if the user unzips stuff manually into
> eclipse/plugins or eclipse/dropins, then it is the user's responsibility to
> "manage" those plugins manually at the file system level (upgrade it, remove
> it, etc). p2 won't touch them. Things that have been provisioned into
> eclipse/plugins or elsewhere by p2 via the user interface or command line
> tools shouldn't be manually edited/removed at the file system level by the
> end user (just like you don't manually move/delete DLL's from Windows apps
> and expect them to continue working).
>
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> Hi,
>
> I think I read somewhere that, whatever is managed by p2 you shouldn't
> touch, and whatever you manage p2 won't touch. This makes perfect
> sense, however there's one thing that's not completely clear to me. Is
> it one of the purposes of p2 to be able to create a new profile (using
> p2, that is, like with the p2 agent), install p2 into that profile,
> and then let it manage itself?
>
> Thanks,
> Fredrik.
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