[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Installing Eclipse SDK from existing i

[Thorsten Meinl <Thorsten.Meinl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Is there a way to perform a p2 installation of Eclipse SDK from an existing
Eclipse installation (with potentially more features than in the SDK)? I
tried something like

/opt/eclipse/eclipse -consolelog -nosplash -application
org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director.app.application -flavor tooling
-installIU org.eclipse.sdk.ide -p2.os linux -p2.ws gtk
-p2.arch x86_64 -roaming
-profileProperties org.eclipse.update.install.features=true
-metadataRepository
file:/opt/eclipse/p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository/cache/
-artifactRepository file:/opt/eclipse/
-destination /tmp/eclipse-sdk -bundlepool /tmp/eclipse-sdk
-profile SDKProfile -version 3.4.2.M20090211-1700
-vmargs -Declipse.p2.data.area=/tmp/eclipse-sdk/p2 


But all I get is the p2-directory but nothing else. And a bunch of error
messages:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository 4 1003 2009-09-09
16:05:38.728
!MESSAGE Error saving metadata repository:
file:/opt/eclipse/p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository/cache/
!STACK 0
java.io.IOException: Permission denied
        at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
        at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:883)
        at
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.LocalMetadataRepository.save(LocalMetadataRepository.java:188)
        at
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.LocalMetadataRepository.<init>(LocalMetadataRepository.java:81)
        at
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.provisional.spi.p2.metadata.repository.SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.create(SimpleMetadataRepositoryFactory.java:33)
        at
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.metadata.repository.MetadataRepositoryManager.createRepository(MetadataRepositoryManager.java:252)
        at
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.console.ProvisioningHelper.addMetadataRepository(ProvisioningHelper.java:48)
        at
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.director.app.Application.initializeRepositories(Application.java:178)
        at
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.director.app.Application.run(Application.java:345)
        at
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.p2.director.app.Application.start(Application.java:423)
        at
org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run(EclipseAppHandle.java:193)
        at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
        at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
        at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:386)
        at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:179)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:549)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:504)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1236)
        at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:1212)

!ENTRY org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository 2 0 2009-09-09
16:05:40.481
!MESSAGE Error parsing metadata repository
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 2 0 2009-09-09 16:05:40.482
!MESSAGE Error at line 9, column 99: Missing required attribute
in "repository": url
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 2 0 2009-09-09 16:05:40.483
!MESSAGE Error at line 9, column 99: Illegal value for attribute "url" of
element "repository": null
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 2 0 2009-09-09 16:05:40.484
!MESSAGE Error at line 10, column 99: Missing required attribute
in "repository": url
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 2 0 2009-09-09 16:05:40.484
!MESSAGE Error at line 10, column 99: Illegal value for attribute "url" of
element "repository": null
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 2 0 2009-09-09 16:05:40.485
!MESSAGE Error at line 11, column 97: Missing required attribute
in "repository": url
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 2 0 2009-09-09 16:05:40.486
!MESSAGE Error at line 11, column 97: Illegal value for attribute "url" of
element "repository": null
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 2 0 2009-09-09 16:05:40.487
!MESSAGE Error at line 12, column 97: Missing required attribute
in "repository": url
!SUBENTRY 1 org.eclipse.equinox.p2.core 2 0 2009-09-09 16:05:40.488
!MESSAGE Error at line 12, column 97: Illegal value for attribute "url" of
element "repository": null
Installing org.eclipse.sdk.ide 3.4.2.M20090211-1700.
Operation completed in 27490 ms.

Thorsten