Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] p2 <-> aggregator sync.

[Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 7:48 PM, Stephan Herrmann
<stephan.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been observing conflicts between recent changes in p2
> and the CBI aggregator for some weeks [1].
>
> Today, I triggered a gerrit test with latest from Object Teams,
> which is provided as a repo created by latest from p2 (as of M5).
>
> Result [2]:
> Unable to load repository
> p2:file:///home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/objectteams/updates/ot2.7/staging
> While I don't see the actual root error, this appears to be the case
> were the aggregator cannot handle current format of p2 meta data.
> (Any chance to access any details of this failure?)

It's not mandatory for this to be the case. It can be smth similar to
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=530207 and the ant task
eating the underlying exception. It has been announced for Tycho
builds [1]. And explained with more details in [2]. It would be nice
someone with more knowledge of CBI Ant magic to check whether this is
the case.

[1] https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg15210.html
[2] https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg15205.html

>
> When I locally install the latest CBI aggregator from
>   http://download.eclipse.org/cbi/updates/aggregator/ide/4.8/
> I can successfully validate and build the aggregation.
> Smoke tests of installing from that locally built repo show
> no problems.
>
> How do folks feel about either of
>  A upgrading to latest from CBI aggregator?
>  B ensuring that no project in simrel uses p2 > Photon M3 for their
> contribution?
>    B.1: how long can be "freeze" p2 at Oxygen level??
>
> We have no plan C for M5.
>
> BTW, kudos to David Williams for doing the necessary maintenance
> to keep the aggregator alive [3].
>
> A fine point: I found no way to upgrade the Oomph-based SimRel
> workbench to latest from p2 and aggregator, because we'd need versions
> from M5 of which no EPP exists at this point. Chicken-and-egg?
>
> best,
> Stephan
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=528798
> [2]
> https://hudson.eclipse.org/simrel/job/simrel.photon.runaggregator.VALIDATE.gerrit/137/console
> [3] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=528872
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Alexander Kurtakov
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