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Re: [tycho-user] How to prepare the p2-site for an offline target platform to be used in a tycho build

Just create a minmal example, with

- a target file referencing for example the latest Eclipse (or eqinox) release - an updatesite/category.xml referencing what you desire to include from the above
- if you like, add more if required to reproduce the issue...
- an executable maven build where one can call mvn <whatever you call> to the the mentioned issue

Am 07.12.20 um 12:58 schrieb gm:
Okay, I will set up a maven project on Github before I ask you the next time.

Just tell me now how to get the target specification you mention into the pom, please.

Thank you,
Günther Mahr

Am 07.12.2020 um 12:11 schrieb Johan Compagner <jcompagner@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jcompagner@xxxxxxxxxx>>:



On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 11:50, Mickael Istria <mistria@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mistria@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

    Hi,

    On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 11:36 AM Johan Compagner
    <jcompagner@xxxxxxxxxx <mailto:jcompagner@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

        Why is it if it is already builded with that on jenkins for
        many times already it can fail suddenly if one of the sites
        has a hiccup?


    Rebuilding from scratch is a way to ensure build portability and
    reproducibility in any environment. That's something that's
    usually desired.


for me the target site has exact version numbers
if i include a git features i include "2020127-1300"

that will not change..

I think it is the same for all the stuff we have in our target file.

servoy-eclipse/com.servoy.eclipse.target.target at master · Servoy/servoy-eclipse (github.com) <https://github.com/Servoy/servoy-eclipse/blob/master/launch_targets/com.servoy.eclipse.target.target>

<https://github.com/Servoy/servoy-eclipse/blob/master/launch_targets/com.servoy.eclipse.target.target>as far as i can see
if i download that target once (with that content)
it will never change and it is not supposed to change!
because that would mean that between builds suddenly have have new stuff inside?
why would that be a desired implementation??


That would be horrible i am in the process of making a final release and have first a few rc's and then the final in a couple of weeks time. Then suddenly without me knowing tycho download all kind of different features and between the latest rc and the final build i suddenly have newer/other plugins?



        Why does it want to continuously check and download the stuff?


    It checks the content of the remote repo for potential updates and
    so on, but as long as you don't clean your Maven repository, it
    will reuse the local artifacts that were already downloaded and
    not redownload them.


right but it bombs out when it can't and it takes quite some time to check all our stuff all the time
i rather then have an option right here:

servoy-eclipse/pom.xml at master · Servoy/servoy-eclipse (github.com) <https://github.com/Servoy/servoy-eclipse/blob/master/pom.xml#L44>

<https://github.com/Servoy/servoy-eclipse/blob/master/pom.xml#L44><fixedTarget>true</fixedTarget>

and based on that tycho never checks after the initial download for that target file (check the contents not the version) that it needs to do some stuff


        Why can't tycho not make a local site right from my target ?


    How you deal with your target and its caching seems more to be
    your specific build logic, not something really standard. Tycho
    doesn't necessarily need nor download the whole content of a
    .target file description, only necessary dependencies (according
    to dependency resolution) will be fetched. I don't think such
    capability to make a local p2 repo from a .target should be part
    of the default Tycho workflow. However, Tycho can for sure provide
    some utils to improve that.
    And there are already such utils in the ecosystem, see for example
    https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-maven-plugins/blob/master/tycho-plugins/target-platform-utils/src/main/java/org/jboss/tools/tycho/targets/TargetToRepoMojo.java
    <https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-maven-plugins/blob/master/tycho-plugins/target-platform-utils/src/main/java/org/jboss/tools/tycho/targets/TargetToRepoMojo.java>
    which does exactly that (take a .target and make a p2 repo from it).


no
i don't want this
because i use build servers and so on
then i constantly have to make this and upload? this to somewhere
And still that is then remote. i want it purely local and without me knowing the filesystem om my jenkins (because our our jenkins we have 3 branches of our product continuously and all of them use a different target file)
So how would you do this?
How would you if you don't want to do anything on that server (thats just in the cloud, we only have a jenkins frontend) commit something for a specific branch that generates a local target specific for a branch that is then used on in that branch? Without ssh, anybody should be able to just check a file in and jenkins should handle this then.


        For example generate a sha hash from the contents of the
        target file
        and cache based on that hash on local disk the full resolved site.
        (or it fills up in that dir the stuff it needs or it
        encounters that is not there)


    Tycho already has cache in the Maven repo.


right so why does it bomb out if it can't find:

servoy-eclipse/com.servoy.eclipse.target.target at master · Servoy/servoy-eclipse (github.com) <https://github.com/Servoy/servoy-eclipse/blob/master/launch_targets/com.servoy.eclipse.target.target#L16>

<https://github.com/Servoy/servoy-eclipse/blob/master/launch_targets/com.servoy.eclipse.target.target#L16>(which happens now and then for that)


        So when a full build is done everything is in that dir based
        on the sha hash of the contents of that target file
        if that file changes it just generates a new one (i guess we
        need to be able to clean up stuff later )
        But as long as the sha hash doesn't change tycho doesn't try
        to contact any site it always gets everything locally
        This should speed up the builds, and we shouldn't suddenly
        have breaking builds because of a network problem to one of
        the things inside the target.


    There is nothing that guarantees the content of a remote p2
    repository doesn't change; so there is nothing that guarantees
    that a .target file will resolve to the same artifacts in 2
    distinct executions. Caching the results and assuming the remote
    repos are stable would break many use-cases of Tycho, where
    projects explicitly rely on mutable remote repositories to build
    against latest dependencies.


right but let me decide that then
i know it is fully stable. it never want that a target file that stays the same has al kind of hard version it it (see above)
suddenly starts downloading different stuff
If that happens it should fail
i want to know that
because that means that suddenly our product builds on a different set of jars that i don't expect
and i want to be fully in control
i am the person that says tycho you can download new stuff, i checked it and i updated the version in the target file.

But i still don't see how this could happen, because a target file (at least ours) have hard coded versions in all the includes, it can't just suddenly take another one..


        This is kind of currently how we work with target files in our
        Eclipse environments


    In Eclipse IDE, you're supposed to hit "reload" from time to time
    in case your .target has refs to repo with mutable content. It's
    the same as what Tycho does (reload on every build).


nope
see my stuff above
as long as i don't change our target file to have different version of all the features or plugins
the target file output is set in stone.
it will not change.

Where is an example that does suddenly change?


        Maybe tycho only needs to cache the contents.jar/artifacts.jar
        of  the sites? because the plugins/features are already cached
        in the mvn repo. So what we cache based on a sha hash is very
        little.


    IIRC, it does already cache metadata from remote repos, but we'd
    still need to query the HTTP head of repo metadata to know whether
    something actually changed since last fetch and invalidate cache
    accordingly. Maybe Tycho doesn't optimize the usage of such cache.
    It would be interesting to dig in that direction.



right thats what i kind of want i don't mind that this is an option that i need to set like i said above. i know my target file as long as the content doesn't change is set in stone, the download will always be exactly the same, it does not need to check anything

johan

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