RE: [p2-dev] How use updated custom touchpoint action in the sameinstall

[Samuel Wu <samuelwu@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Simon,

You get me exactly right. Based on your comment, I would think the following case should also work when I install the main v1 for the first time.

I have a main feature v1 includes test feature v1 and action feature v1. During the installation of main feature v1, it should figure out that test feature v1 requires action feature v1 and install action feature v1 first. When it comes to install test feature v1, it can use the newly installed action feature v1. When I tried the above scenarion, I got the following error messages when selecting the main feature to install.

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: Main Feature 1.0.0.200906091346 (com.abc.main.feature.feature.group 1.0.0.200906091346)
Missing requirement: Test Feature 1.0.0.200906091346 (com.abc.test.feature.feature.group 1.0.0.200906091346) requires 'org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine.actions com.abc.custom.action.MyCustomAction 1.0.0' but it could not be found
Cannot satisfy dependency:
From: Main Feature 1.0.0.200906091346 (com.abc.main.feature.feature.group 1.0.0.200906091346)
To: com.abc.test.feature.feature.group [1.0.0.200906091346]

I'm attaching the workspace here for the above scenario.(See attached file: w35b.zip)

If this is NOT the way it's supposed to work, please let me know I'll try the update scenario you described.

Best Regards

Samuel Wu

Simon Kaegi/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA

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I think Samuel's question is a bit more complex. He's essentially asking about how we would handle the interleaving of a request that involves a newer version of the bundle that provides custom actions.
This is a scenario that I don't feel has been explored fully -- I would want to walk through this with a debugger to be sure we handle it correctly before being taken at face value.

With that said, here's my understanding of what Samuel's asking and what I would expect to happen at the engine level for a scenario where we:

1) install main.feature v1
a) Perform install of custom.action v1 (based on metarequirements in main.feature v1)
b) Install the rest of main.feature v1
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2) upgrade to main.feature v1.1
a) uninstall of parts of main.feature v1 and upgrade custom.action v1 to v1.1 (based on metarequirements in main.feature v1.1)
b) upgrade the rest of main.feature v1.1

You mention that the custom.action is not getting upgraded as it should in step 2a. This should happen (e.g the new custom action should be installed and run) however the metarequirement would have to be versioned correctly or otherwise the v1 custom.action will get run.

Again, this is scenario that I will have to step through but if that's not what is happening then it's a bug. If anyone can come up with a small example we can build on to create a test case please feel free to open a bug as that will speed the process a great deal. Otherwise... I'll try this out when I get a chance.

-Simon

"Mark Melvin" ---06/09/2009 11:04:26 AM---Hi Samuel,

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Hi Samuel,

This is what the "metaRequirements" in p2.inf are for. You basically have your com.abc.main.feature "metaRequire" the custom touchpoint action and it will be installed and activated first. There are a few threads and examples on this on the mailing list, and an example by Simon here:

http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/p2-dev/msg01379.html

Also see the newsgroup:

http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/article.php?id=6224&group=eclipse.technology.equinox#6224

Mark.

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From: p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:p2-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Samuel Wu
Sent: June 9, 2009 10:23 AM
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Subject: [p2-dev] How use updated custom touchpoint action in the sameinstallation?

Hello P2,

I have a question on how to update the custom touchpoint action. And hope you can provide some suggestion.
Let's say that I have a feature com.abc.custom.touchpoint which ships a custom touch point action com.abc.custom.action.MyCustomAction. I have another feature com.abc.main which needs to use the action com.abc.custom.action.MyCustomAction. In order to ship them together, another feature com.abc.all is created to include both features.
Now a bug is found in com.abc.custom.action.MyCustomAction and I need to ship a fix along with the fixes to com.abc.main. However when I come to install this fixpack which includes both the fixes, the new com.abc.main feature still calls the old com.abc.custom.action.MyCustomAction which is currently recognized by the eclipse since the new one is still being installed. The change made in com.abc.custom.action.MyCustomAction will not be used until the next installation.
Is there a way to use the new com.abc.custom.action.MyCustomAction right away in the same installation?
Thanks.

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