[p2-dev] Headless Composite Repository functionality?

[Eric Gwin <eric.gwin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I wasn't originally going to post here with this rather specific 
configuration question. However, it is possible others may benefit, so 
here goes...

EclipseLink doesn't use Buckminster or Athena for building. I've looked 
into it a little, but basically our team would prefer to maintain as 
generic a build as possible to ease migration type issues from the user 
perspective. That means an ant based build system invoked from the 
command-line (in addition to Eclipse projects primarily used during 
development).

I've been in the process of migrating from using the older "metadata 
generator" to the newer "publisher" tool to generate p2 repositories for 
our builds, but also want to make use of composite repositories. 

What I'm wondering is if there is any similar "headless" command-line 
facility for generation and updating of composite repositories. I've 
reviewed 
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Composite_Repositories_%28new%29#p2.composite.repository, 
but it only talks about this functionality within ant tasks, and I've 
been unable to track down further info on composite repositories.

Thanks.

-Eric

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