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Re: [p2-dev] resetting the configuration area
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Hi Simon,
Thank you for your quick response.
I created https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=288971 in order
to address the issue.
To summarize:
To change the behavior of our product:
When a user resets the configuration are with -configuration /foo/bar
then bar should be the root folder for:
* the osgi.configuration.area
* the p2.data.area
* users bundle pool
Is there more we should be aware of?
Is there any additional data held there @config/../ per default?
Thank you,
Rupert
Simon Kaegi wrote:
> Hi Rupert,
>
> Here's a bug that deals a bit with the problem --
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=230384
>
> In a nutshell we found ourselves very late in the Eclipse 3.4 in a
> not great situation where we had been treating the parent of the
> "user" configuration folder as a "user" install folder. One of the
> proposals in the above bug that seemed reasonable was to use the
> value for -configuration as the user install root however that was
> deemed too risky at the time. We might look at supporting that with a
> flag but at this point changing the default behavior is going to be a
> tough sell.
>
> We currently can re-locate the p2.folder by setting a system property
> as you note but the user's bundle pool (e.g. artifact.xml as well as
> the associated plugins and features folders) is not currently set
> independently. That sounds like something we could support so please
> open a bug. For now without getting fancy I'd stick to convention and
> use a configuration folder that explicitly adds a "configuration"
> folder at the end.
>
> -Simon
>
>
>
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> |Rupert Gratz <rupert.gratz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> |"Gutschelhofer, Martin" <Martin.Gutschelhofer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> |09/08/2009 08:31 PM
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> |[p2-dev] resetting the configuration area
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> Hi all,
>
> We repeatably run into an issue since we enabled p2 in our product:
>
> What many developers/testers do here is changing the default
> configuration area by passing an option to the startup executable:
> "-configuration /tmp/myConfig"
>
> But many do not specify an additional subfolder like:
> "/tmp/myConfig/configuration" !
>
> Thus, they run into some problems: Because folders/files will be
> created here: @config/../ (which is in the case above: /tmp/ !)
>
> a p2 folder will be created there - Of course we can change that
> behavior in the config.ini file. However when one installs additional
> features/plugins they will be stored here "@config/../" no matter
> where the users p2 folder is being located.
>
> The only solution for us, so far, is to specify the configuration
> area by adding a sub folder: "-configuration /tmp/myConfig/conf".
>
> Is this the only solution to get rid of this problem? Do we have any
> possibilities to customize our product in a way so we can get rid of
> this problem? - we can change the location of the user's p2 folder -
> OK - Whats with the artifacts.xml which is being created here
> @config/../ - and additional installed software (features/plugins)
> ??
>
> It would be great if someone can help me on this or can at least
> point me to a better suitable place to ask for this issue.
>
> Thanks for any hints, Rupert
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