[News.eclipse.technology.packaging] Re: Build custom package

[Markus Knauer <mknauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

See answers below...


Marco Maccaferri wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm playing with EPP these days to build a custom package. It generally
> works, however I can't get the update manager to work. From Help ->
> Software Updates I get the following message:
> 
> Cannot launch the update UI. The installation has not been configured
> property for software updates.

So you are able to start and to run the created package? That doesn't sound
too bad.

> This seems true since the built package doesn't contains the p2 and
> dropins folders, nor it contains the p2-related folders under the
> configuration folder.

That is interesting - there seem to be something missing.

> My guess is that I'm not using the correct root files, but since the
> configuration files points to a local folder, I don't know how to get
> the correct files. Also I think that there are some files that needs to
> be generated rather than copied, but doesn't seems that there is a way
> to generate these files.

Maybe... are you using the 'root' files from the Eclipse Platform team? Such
as the platform download like this one for RC4? E.g. the file
eclipse-platform-3.4RC4-win32.zip from 
http://ganymede-mirror1.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.4RC4-200806091311/download.php?dropFile=eclipse-platform-3.4RC4-win32.zip

> What am I missing ?

I suggest opening a bug and attaching the EPP configuration file to it. Then
we can have a look...

> Regards,
> Marco.