Re: [tycho-user] p2 update question

[Krzysztof Daniel <kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 14:44 +0200, Markward Schubert wrote:

> We hope you can help us with a problem with updating a specific
> feature of our product.
> 
> We have a feature based product, built with tycho, which also fetches
> some features from another repository, also build with tycho, being
> maintained/developed separately. This one features an update-site,
> providing a couple of features. So from our product’s perspective this
> is a kind of “third party dependency”.
> 
> Now we want to implement the possibility to specifically update these
> features in a headless way via p2. The features are actually only a
> subset of the features, our product consists of.

Hey Markward,

I'm not sure if I guessed it right, but it looks like you have:

your product (P)
+ your product feature (A)
+ external dependency feature (B)

and you want to update (B). If that's what you're trying to get, then I
am afraid it is not possible, because your product P contains a well
defined version of B.

What I think would be the best here, is to build your product P with
feature A only, and then install into it B, and ship this composition.
P2 about dialog would show that you've installed:

your product (P)
+ your product feature (A)
external dependency feature (B)

as you can see, B is no longer a part of A, so it can be independently
changed/updated.

Let me know if this is the case.

-- 
Krzysztof Daniel <kdaniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat