Is it even possible to "install its parent feature again" without uninstalling the feature first?
This results in a no-op
Unless the plug-in in question was installed manually, uninstalling the parent feature should uninstall the plug-in too. Installing the parent feature again will install the plug-in again too. Right?
Right. Note though that if the artifact (e.g. the plugin) has not been garbage collected (p2 has a GC that eventually deletes artifacts, this is necessary because some files can’t be
deleted immediately because they are in use) , then an uninstall followed by an install may not cause a new file to be downloaded.
From:
"Pascal Rapicault" <pascal.rapicault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "P2 developer discussions" <p2-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 4:03:52 PM
Subject: Re: [p2-dev] Question about deleting a downloaded p2 plugin
If a plugin is deleted from disk, p2 will not download it again, nor will it check for its presence or validity.
As you guessed this is because the setup of p2 in Eclipse is taking a metadata-first approach to provisioning. What I mean here is that p2 knows from the content of the profile that the IU for the plugin is installed
and it won’t question this.
There is no tool available to check the validity of an install, but it could be written as a side application.
HTH
If I delete a plugin from my plugins folder, and then go to install its parent feature again, will p2 download the plugin again? Does it check to make sure a plugin actually exists or does it just
rely on its metadata? If it’s the latter is there any way to force it to check?
Thanks,
-Josh
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