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Re: [tycho-user] Adding discovery sites to p2 repository
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It seems strange that this functionality isn’t available in tycho, but thanks for the pointer! This looks exactly like what we need.
Thanks,
Greg
> On Apr 25, 2016, at 9:54 PM, Nick Boldt <nickboldt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> There's a mojo we use for JBoss Tools which can add repository
> references to an update site's content.xml: .
>
> https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-maven-plugins/tree/master/tycho-plugins/repository-utils
>
> See the example in the readme. You just need to add the config that
> provides associateSites:
>
> <associateSites>
>
> <site>http://download.server.org/path/to/updates/</site>
>
> <site>http://download.server.org/path/to/more/updates/</site>
> </associateSites>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Nick
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Greg Watson <g.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have a repository that has dependencies on content from other repositories. We don’t want to enable includeAllDependencies because this just creates a massive repository and makes updates difficult. We don’t want to use a composite repository because the dependencies get shown to the user. We would like the dependent repositories to be added to the content.xml using the <references> and <repository> elements.
>>
>> From what I’ve been able to determine by scouring the web, the eclipse-repository packaging type does not copy either the <repository-reference> entries from the category.xml file nor the <discovery> entries from the feature.xml into the content.xml. I’ve also tried adding a p2.inf file with addRepository touchpoint commands, but these don’t seem to be added either.
>>
>> The only way I have been able to get this to work is to resort to the old eclipse-update-site packaging type and use a site.xml file.
>>
>> Is anyone able to confirm:
>>
>> a) the current eclipse-repository packaging type does not provide any way to do this; and
>> b) the only way to do it (without resorting to ant scripts) is using an eclipse-update-site.
>>
>> Any other suggestions appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Greg
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