[p2-dev] Issue getting the p2 productPublisher / Director to correctly i

[James Blackburn <jamesblackburn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

I've read the wikis, the online help, etc. but I'm still struggling to get p2 to provision + install a RCP product.  All the p2 commands execute without error, just the native application launcher isn't installed using p2, where it is using the PDE.

I created a very simple helloworld IApplication which demonstrates the issue:

Using 3.7.0:

git clone git@xxxxxxxxxx:jamesblackburn/com.foo.git

1) Open the com.foo project in eclipse.  

2) Right click on foo.product > Export > Eclipse Product > Root Directory: foo_rel

3) Finish

> ls foo_rel/

configuration  foo  foo.ini  p2  plugins

> ./foo_rel/foo

HelloWorld!

If I try to do the same thing using p2 (just going by the docs on the wiki/help:

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

http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/tasks/pde_p2_builds.htm)

#Create metadata and artifact p2 repo from the release:

./builder/eclipse -nosplash -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.publisher.FeaturesAndBundlesPublisher \

    -artifactRepository file://`pwd`/foo_repo/ -metadataRepository file://`pwd`/foo_repo/ \

    -source ./foo_rel \

    -append -publishArtifacts

# Publish the product

./builder/eclipse  -nosplash -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.publisher.ProductPublisher     \

    -artifactRepository file://`pwd`/foo_repo/ -metadataRepository file://`pwd`/foo_repo/   \

    -productFile `pwd`/com.foo/foo.product  \

    -executable delta-pack/features/org.eclipse.equinox.executable_3.5.0.v20110530-7P7NFUFFLWUl76mart/ \

    -flavor tooling   -append -publishArtifacts -configs ANY

  

#Install the application

./builder/eclipse \

   -nosplash \

   -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director \

   -repository file://`pwd`/foo_repo/ \

   -installIU com.foo.product \

   -profile FooProfile \

   -profileProperties org.eclipse.update.install.features=false \

   -destination foo \

   -bundlepool foo \

   -p2.os linux \

   -p2.ws gtk \

   -p2.arch x86_64 \

   -roaming 

> ls foo

artifacts.xml  configuration  eclipse.ini  p2  plugins

There's no native 'foo' executable. 

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers,

James