[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Automatically install features?

[Tom Dalton <tom.dalton@xxxxxxx>]

Ok, so I think I'm slowly getting there...

I have got the P2 director looking at a local site for fetaures, but I'm now running into a problem. If I point the remote site url at

file:/path/to/emf-site.zip

Then it tries to open the file

/path/to/emf-site.zip/site.xml

So it doesn't seem to understand a zipped site. That's fine, but if I unzip the site manually and pass the p2 director:

file:/path/to/emf-site-extracted

Then it analyses the features ok, but when it comes to install them it bombs out with a file not found error. This seems to be caused by the plugins in the extracted site zip being .jar.pack.gz files, but the site.xml refers to the plugins as plain .jar files. Any ideas how to fix this?