Re: [equinox-dev] [p2] How to use director/mirror app against an RCP as p2 repo

2017-06-27 Thread Mickael Istria
I didn't try that, but I don't think it fits my use-case well (EPP uses mirror application with iu queries). I've tried another path: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=518813 and managed to easily write a patch it Tycho to get it working and usable in EPP. I suggest we continue the

Re: [equinox-dev] [p2] How to use director/mirror app against an RCP as p2 repo

2017-06-27 Thread Carsten Reckord
Have you tried something like this? $ ~/ profiles-ide/eclipse/eclipse.exe -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -metadataRepository file:/C:/Users/creckord/profiles-ide/eclipse/p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine/profileRegistry/D__data_profiles_installations_profiles-ide_eclipse.profile/

Re: [equinox-dev] [p2] How to use director/mirror app against an RCP as p2 repo

2017-06-26 Thread Mickael Istria
Thanks Carsten, that's a good hint. So I tried to use the profile directory, and it's encouraging: I can list its content and install them in another IDE. So there is definitely everything necessary in it to use p2 director or p2 mirror. However, I've tried using CLI: ```

Re: [equinox-dev] [p2] How to use director/mirror app against an RCP as p2 repo

2017-06-26 Thread Roland Grunberg
On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 12:33 +, Carsten Reckord wrote: > In the IDE, this works directly: In "Install new software", you can use the > P2 profile directory inside of another Eclipse installation as your > repository location and install from there. E.g. >

Re: [equinox-dev] [p2] How to use director/mirror app against an RCP as p2 repo

2017-06-26 Thread Carsten Reckord
In the IDE, this works directly: In "Install new software", you can use the P2 profile directory inside of another Eclipse installation as your repository location and install from there. E.g. /p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine/profileRegistry/SDKProfile.profile I'm not sure how the

[equinox-dev] [p2] How to use director/mirror app against an RCP as p2 repo

2017-06-26 Thread Mickael Istria
Hi all, It seems like a RCP app p2 profile is somehow like a p2 repo. Is there a way, for a given p2-able RCP app, to use it as a software source just like a p2 repo on which we can apply director or mirror application? The goal is to properly extract content out of an RCP (in this case EPP