Re: [platform-update-dev] Aggregating update sites

[Dorian Birsan <birsan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

Aggregate/meta sites was one of the
features discussed a few years back (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=71092),
and I am not aware of it being implemented. I am actually curious what
the current status is.

-Dorian

"Wayne Beaton" <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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12/19/2006 12:43 PM

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Subject	[platform-update-dev] Aggregating update sites

Hey folks. I'm trying to build an aggregated update
site for Eclipse Plug-in
Central (EPIC). What I've been doing is gathering the existing site.xml
from
other update sites, extracting the feature and archive bits, and including
them in my own site.xml file. I'm building my own categories (one for each
site that I'm aggregating).

It all works great until I actually try to start installing a plug-in.
It
fails when the plug-in's URL is a relative path and an archive mapping
is
not provided. In this case, my update site is assumed as the base and,
of
course, the JAR files are not found.

As I see it I have to dig into the feature JARs and create archive mappings
for each of the plug-ins included with the feature (relative to the site.xml
file corresponding to the feature).

I'm looking for options. It seemed at first that associated sites might
give
me what I want (have the aggregate site reference the associated sites),
but
this doesn't seem to be fully baked yet.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Wayne
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