[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: How to generate p2 metadata for ex

["John E. Conlon" <jconlon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben,

Too bad the zips exported by the PDE Product Export Wizards don't have 
this already.  From what I understand you will have to:
1. Generate P2 Repository
2. Create a P2ize product

For #1 there are three approaches:
a. With the PDE Product Export Wizard you can select the option to 
generate a repository when you do the product export.
b. There are facilities for PDE Build to do this as well. Here is an 
excellent recipe for PDE Build to do both #1 and #2 at:
http://aniefer.blogspot.com/2008/06/example-headless-build-for-rcp-product.html
c. Use the P2 Metadata Generator

For #2 you can do this from the p2 Repository you created in #1.  Again 
I think there are basically 3 ways to do this:
a. The P2 Installer
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Installer

b. The P2 Headless Director
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_director_application

c. The P2 AdminUI  (Haven't tried this way myself though I think it 
should work.)
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Admin_UI_Users_Guide


Also see the previous 12/15/2008 news group message with subject 
'Eclipse with P2'.

cheers,

John

Ben Vitale wrote:
> When I run the Export wizard against a .product that has a dependency on 
> the org.eclipse.platform feature, I get all the p2 plugins included in 
> the export. I'm able to see the Software Updates menu item. But clicking 
> on it results in this message:
>
> "Cannot launch the Update UI.  This installation has not been configured 
> properly for Software Updates."
>
> There is also this in the log:
>
> !ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.ui.sdk 2 0 2009-01-07 10:01:12.549
> !MESSAGE Could not locate the running profile instance. The 
> eclipse.p2.data.area and eclipse.p2.profile properties may not be set 
> correctly in this application's config.ini file.
>
> Now I'm noticing that there is in fact no p2 data area in the exported 
> product output. I suspect the error I'm seeing is the one referenced in 
> this bug: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=221513
>
> Is there a flag that should be set on the build.properties file to 
> trigger the generation of p2 metadata?
>
> Thanks
> Ben