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[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: Making p2 repos with PDE structured with categories and IUs

From: "Pascal Rapicault" <pascal_rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:24:31 -0400
Newsgroups: eclipse.technology.equinox
Organization: EclipseCorner

I have built the attached example manually and it does what you are looking 
for wrt to the nesting.
However it does not get rid of the uncategorized category 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=227675
If you feel like hacking something around this last bug please dont' 
hesitate

"Francis Upton (News)" <francisu@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:g5q28t$5ba$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a headless build, and I want to make a p2 repos to do
> installations from.
>
> I want it to look like this:
>
> Category1
>   Product1 IU
>   Product2 IU
>   Category1a
>     Feature1 IU (not an executable product)
>     Feature2 IU (as above)
>   Category1c
>   ...
>
> I tried the default p2 metadata generation and was not able to get
> something like Category1a, I tried making Category1a as a product with
> the Feature1 and Feature2, but show features did not show through in the
>  categories.
>
> It also creates this very unsatisfying "Uncategorized" category where it
> puts all of the features.  I don't want this category at all.  And I
> don't consider most of my features as separate IUs.
>
> I guess what I want is some more flexibility in the p2 metadata
> generation to specify my own categories and specify the IUs that go
> under them (which may or may not be based on products).  As far as I
> know there does not seem to be a way to do this.  I'm considering
> patching the p2 metadata generator to allow this flexibility.
>
> I guess an alternative is to use the old update site stuff and then
> generate the p2 data from that, but I want to avoid that if possible
> (when I tried to generate an update site a while ago, I had trouble with
> that -- I think mainly due to my ignorance).
>
> Are there other alternatives?
>
>
> -- 
> *new* Common Navigator Framework section in:
>    3.4RC4 Platform Plugin Developer Guide (Programmer's Guide)
> http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/cnf.htm
> http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/francis
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Common_Navigator_Framework
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Common_Navigator_Framework_Use_Cases
>
>
> You have brains in your head.
> You have feet in your shoes.
> - Dr Seuss, Oh the Places You'll Go 


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