[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Problem with p2

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try the eclipse.platform group.

Wayne

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:38 -0400, Ted Kirby wrote:
> With Ganymede, I installed some features I had packaged from a local update 
> site.  I found some problems with my plugins/*/about.html files.  I 
> uninstalled my features, and restarted eclipse.  I built a new update site 
> with my changes.  When I installed them, they were not in my code.  It seems 
> that p2 got stale data.  Sure enough, in my eclipse install plugins 
> directory, I found some old stale data.  I erased this and restarted 
> eclipse, but it was not happy.  I have since read that p2 does not like 
> this!  So, I erased my eclipse install directory, and reinstalled that. 
> That worked, but I would like a better solution!  This seems like p2 bug, 
> but I wanted to run it by folks on the mailing list for input.  Is there a 
> more appropriate newsgroup for p2?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ted Kirby 
> 
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