[fedora-java] generating eclipse dropin content.xml

[Robert Marcano]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com>wrote:

> * Robert Marcano <robert at marcanoonline.com> [2009-02-16 17:56]:
> > but I do not know how to generate the content.xml (with only plugins
> > and features directories, eclipse do not see them on the about
> > window). Is there a way to generate it outside the pdebuild script?
>
> Sure, you can use the p2 ant targets (make sure to run them with the
> Eclipse antRunner application and not just plain ant).  I think there's
> generate.p2.metadata among others.  But as it currently stands this is
> just used to speed up initial installation so don't bend over backwards
> trying to do it.  p2 will generate the same metadata upon first use and
> plop it into the user's ~/.eclipse directory.


So content.xml is just for first use startup optimization and not needed

>
>
> If they're not being seen, you may be a victim of:
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=251167
>

> Try running with -clean to see if they're picked up.  If they're still
> not picked up, try putting the same directory somewhere on disk and
> doing an installation from a local site and see if it completes or gives
> dependency missing errors.


-clean (and rm -rf  ~/.eclipse) did not worked, testing tomorrow with a
clean eclipse installation, for some reason I am having a 5k download speed
using yum to reinstall eclipse

>
>
> Andrew
>

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Robert Marcano
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