Equinox/p2 - Getting started with Equinox/p2 · 2009. 6. 29. · Title: Equinox/p2 - Getting...

Equinox/p2Getting started with Equinox/p2

Tomasz Zarna

Eclipse Platform Workspace committerIBM Poland

2009-06-27 / Eclipse DemoCamp

Equinox/p2 Copyright c©IBM Corp., 2009. All rights reserved. | 2009-06-18

Outline

1 Intro to p2

2 p2 folders

3 p2 Installer

4 Links


What is p2?

p2 =

Provisioning Platform

Update Manager→ p2

deliver + manage = provision

new UI, simplified workflows

manage your complete install

pool your resources

avoid runtime surprises

install more than just bundles


What is p2?

p2 = Provisioning Platform

Update Manager→ p2

deliver + manage = provision

new UI, simplified workflows

manage your complete install

pool your resources

avoid runtime surprises

install more than just bundles


Install

Help > Install New Software. . .


Auto Updates

Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Automatic Updates


Bird’s eye view


Outline

1 Intro to p2

2 p2 folders

3 p2 Installer

4 Links


p2

plugins forced in, restart -clean

dropins installed, watched dir

install with p2 UI→ uninstall with p2 UI


Dropins folder formatsjar and directory

eclipse/dropins/org.eclipse.core.tools_1.4.0.200710121455.jarorg.eclipse.releng.tools_3.3.0.v20070412/plugin.xmltools.jar... etc ...

...


Dropins folder formatsapplication or extension layout

eclipse/dropins/eclipse/features/plugins/


Dropins folder formatsadditional folders for different components

eclipse/dropins/emf/eclipse/

features/plugins/

gef/eclipse/features/plugins/

... etc ...


Dropins folder formatslink file

eclipse/dropins/emf.link

emf.link

path=c:/apps/e/tools/emf


Installation history

Help > About Eclipse SDK > Installation Details > Installation History


Install into host

File > Export. . . > Deployable plug-ins and fragments


Classic Update

Window > Preferences > General > Capabilities > Classic Update


Outline

1 Intro to p2

2 p2 folders

3 p2 Installer

4 Links


p2 Installer

small, less than 6MB

multi-threading

pack200 compression

dynamic mirror balancing

certificate validation


The app


installer.properties

eclipse.p2.metadata=http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5-I-builds

eclipse.p2.artifacts=http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5-I-builds

eclipse.p2.rootId=org.eclipse.sdk.ideeclipse.p2.profileName=Eclipse SDKeclipse.p2.launcherName=eclipseeclipse.p2.rootVersion=3.5.0.I20090602-2000eclipse.p2.autoStart=true

eclipse.p2.installLocation=c:/apps/e/i/I20090602-2000


Update sites

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5-N-builds

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5-I-builds

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5milestones

All update sites

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Project_Update_Sites


http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Project_Update_Sites

Outline

1 Intro to p2

2 p2 folders

3 p2 Installer

4 Links


Other stuff

p2 agent

p2 director (headless)

Mirroring remote repositories

Metadata management

API

p2 in OSGi console

. . .


http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Admin_UI_Users_Guide

http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_director.html

http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_mirror.html

http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_metadata.html

Links

Equinox/p2 home page

Equinox/p2 at EclipseSource

Getting started

p2 Concepts

p2 Installer

Equinox downloads


http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/incubator/provisioning/

http://eclipsesource.com/en/eclipse/equinox-p2/

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Getting_Started

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Concepts

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Installer

http://download.eclipse.org/equinox/

Working with p2

Bugs http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs

CVS :pserver:[email protected]/cvsroot/rt/org.eclipse.equinox/p2/

IRC #eclipse channel at freenode.net


https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&classification=RT&product=Equinox&component=p2&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/IRC

Thank you

Thank you


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