Re: [equinox-dev] [p2] How to use director/mirror app against an RCP as

[Carsten Reckord <reckord@xxxxxxxx>]

In the IDE, this works directly: In "Install new software", you can use the P2 profile directory inside of another Eclipse installation as your repository location and install from there. E.g. <eclipse>/p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine/profileRegistry/SDKProfile.profile

I'm not sure how the director/mirror app handle this - they seem to be more picky and have fewer heuristics. So I could imagine that in order to get it to work, you might need to specify artifact and metadata repositories separately. In that case, I would assume that the profile directory should work as the metadata repo, while the Eclipse installation directory (or your bundle pool location) would be your artifact repo. This is all guess work though, and I didn't try it myself.

HTH,
Carsten

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> Subject: [equinox-dev] [p2] How to use director/mirror app against an RCP
> as p2 repo
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> It seems like a RCP app p2 profile is somehow like a p2 repo.
> Is there a way, for a given p2-able RCP app, to use it as a software
> source just like a p2 repo on which we can apply director or mirror
> application? The goal is to properly extract content out of an RCP (in
> this case EPP packages) in order to generate another artifact.
> 
> In the context of EPP, that could save about 50% build time as we could
> skip some assemble-repository steps if we can apply what's described above
> instead.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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> Mickael Istria
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