No, that argument will allow you to turn ON artifact locking in M7 -- it is
now disabled by default.

In M6 there was a bug in how we computed read-only status of a directory.
 This was fixed in subsequent IBuild and in M7.

Here are a few things you can try with M6 (if you can't move right now).
 - Delete the .artifactlock directory and try again
 - Delete the .artifactlock directory and try making the repo read-only.

btw, are you accessing this across a network file system?

Also, if you do get a chance to move to M7, please let us know if things are
better there.

cheers,
ian

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Terry Parker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Tom, I hadn't refined my Bugzilla search enough to see that one.
>
> So that jvm argument will allow you to turn off artifact locking in M7, but
> where am I with M6?  Is there any way I can get M6 to work on my local read
> only repositories?
>
> Thanks,
> Terry
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Thomas Watson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Because of these types of issues we decided to disable the artifact
>> locking by default (see
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=341826). In M6 the locking
>> was enabled by default.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Inactive hide details for Terry Parker ---04/29/2011 01:16:21
>> AM---I'm late to this thread, but I'm doing some work to setup a]Terry
>> Parker ---04/29/2011 01:16:21 AM---I'm late to this thread, but I'm doing
>> some work to setup a distribution based on 3.7m6, and I'm getting
>> lock-related errors ev
>>
>>
>> From:
>> Terry Parker <[email protected]>
>> To:
>> P2 developer discussions <[email protected]>
>> Date:
>> 04/29/2011 01:16 AM
>> Subject:
>> Re: [p2-dev] Talk'n Lock'n
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm late to this thread, but I'm doing some work to setup a distribution
>> based on 3.7m6, and I'm getting lock-related errors everywhere when I point
>> to repos with file-based URIs.  Mainly I get errors like this:
>> java.io.IOException: The folder
>> "/home/eclipse/repos/checkstyle/5.3.1/.artifactlock/.metadata" is read-only.
>>
>> I'm not sure why that is, since I have write permission to that folder,
>> but most of my users won't.  The environment here is Linux.
>>
>> I suspect that I should be setting my repositories as read only but I
>> didn't find any documentation to do that (I only ever do headless p2
>> operations to create repositories).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Terry
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Oberlies, Tobias <*
>> [email protected]* <[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>    Ian Bull wrote:
>>    > 4. Don't use .lock files, but instead use the artifacts.jar as the
>>    lock
>>    > file.  This seems like the best solution and I've spent some time
>>    this
>>    > weekend prototyping it. There are a few challenges with this
>>    approach that
>>    > may be show stoppers (we allow users to change the 'shape' of the
>>    > repository -- from .jar to .xml.  This means that the .lock file
>>    will
>>    > suddenly change; how do we deal with this? Also, what comes first,
>>    the
>>    > repository or the lock?).
>>
>>    What is the use case of changing the shape? I can't imagine why you'd
>>    want to do that. Locking is a very useful feature, and if mutable shape is
>>    blocking a good solution, just drop that "feature".
>>
>>    Best regards
>>    Tobias
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