I created an update-site for set of plugins with a feature.
All is built by tycho and the site is on http server and everything works as it should.
I tried to use the org.eclipse.tycho.extras:tycho-p2-extras-plugin:0.14.0:mirror goal but I get the following error.
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId>
<artifactId>tycho-p2-director-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${tycho-version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>materialize-products</id>
<goals>
<goal>materialize-products</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>archive-products</id>
<goals>
<goal>archive-products</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.eclipse.tycho.extras</groupId>
<artifactId>tycho-p2-extras-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.14.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>mirror</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<source>
<!-- source repositories to mirror from -->
<repository>
<!-- I removed it from confidentiality reasons -->
<url>my-update-site-url</url>
<layout>p2</layout>
<!-- supported layouts are "p2-metadata", "p2-artifacts", and "p2"
(for joint repositories; default) -->
</repository>
<!-- starting from here all configuration parameters are optional -->
<!-- they are only shown here with default values for documentation
purpose -->
<!-- List of IUs to mirror. If omitted, allIUs will be mirrored. -->
<!-- Omitted IU version element means latest version of the IU -->
<!-- <ius> <iu> <id>org.eclipse.rcp.feature.group</id> </iu> </ius> -->
<!-- The destination directory to mirror to. -->
<destination>${project.build.directory}/repository</destination>
<!-- Whether only strict dependencies should be followed. -->
<!-- "strict" means perfect version match -->
<followStrictOnly>false</followStrictOnly>
<!-- Whether or not to follow optional requirements. -->
<includeOptional>true</includeOptional>
<!-- Whether or not to follow non-greedy requirements. -->
<includeNonGreedy>true</includeNonGreedy>
<!-- Filter properties. E.g. filter only one platform -->
<!-- Whether to filter the resulting set of IUs to only -->
<!-- include the latest version of each IU -->
<latestVersionOnly>false</latestVersionOnly>
<!-- don't mirror artifacts, only metadata -->
<mirrorMetadataOnly>false</mirrorMetadataOnly>
<!-- whether to compress the content.xml/artifacts.xml -->
<compress>true</compress>
<!-- whether to append to the target repository content -->
<append>true</append>
</source>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>