Re: [tycho-user] Converting a P2 update-site into a maven repository

[Marcel Bruch <bruch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An approximation would be good enough in most cases, I guess.

> There are couple of efforts that try to make p2->maven conversion, that
> I am aware of

Can you provide some pointers? Maybe to the "most sophisticated ones"?



On 03.09.2011, at 15:19, Igor Fedorenko wrote:

> Tycho does not convert p2 repositories to Maven. Instead, it makes
> p2/osgi dependency resolution logic available for Maven plugins.
> 
> There are couple of efforts that try to make p2->maven conversion, that
> I am aware of, but such conversion is fundamentally an approximation and
> I believe there are always be cases when resulting maven repository will
> not produce desired dependencies. This does not mean the result is
> useless, however ;-)
> 
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> Igor
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> On 11-09-03 7:09 AM, Marcel Bruch wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm currently evaluating different approaches to setup a large-scale
>> code repository for Eclipse Code Recommenders. The upcoming
>> Eclipse/Sonatype's Aether dependency management tool seems to be a good
>> fit to resolve dependencies between (maven) artifacts. I'd also like to
>> analyze osgi bundles and resolve these dependencies with Aether. Since
>> Aether supports only Maven repositories out of the box, the simplest
>> approach would be to merge P2 update sites into a local maven repository.
>> 
>> Since tycho seems to do something similar, I'd like to ask whether there
>> is a simple way to convert a P2 update site to a maven repository - or
>> even better to merge a P2 update-site into a local Maven repository -
>> maybe with tycho?
>> 
>> If this can be done with tycho, is there a solution to deal with OSGI
>> package imports?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Marcel
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Thanks,
Marcel

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