On 3/26/09 9:44 AM, Joel Schuster wrote:
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From: Richard S. Hall [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Using the Bundle Repository
On 3/26/09 8:39 AM, Richard S. Hall wrote:
On 3/26/09 6:58 AM, Joel Schuster wrote:
I'm at somewhat of a loss.
I'm trying to understand what the real advantage of using the Bundle
Repository for installing bundles. I understand the advantage of it
being able to discover dependencies and load those as well.
However, if I deploy using obr it updates the cache, but doesn't
update the bundle directory. I'd like to be able to get a felix
install working and then create an installer to distribute to other
machines. If I use obr I'd have to include the cache directory which
only has the jars as 'bundle.jar', not the real name of the jar for
reference, and nothing else in the cache directory that specifies
which one is which. Yes, I can look at the running ps command, but
what if it's not running yet?
It seems what I really need is to download the bundles I need and use
the FileInstall bundle or hardcode the config (which I'd rather not).
Am I missing something? Actually, I'm sure I am... just let me know
please.
That is not the point of OBR. It's point is to allow you to deploy
bundles and their dependencies.
If you want to do something different, then you should consider
writing some code to do it.
You could easily write your own bundle that uses the OBR service API
to resolve a set of bundles, then download them to any directory you
want, then have File Install deploy them from that directory, for
example.
Thinking about this a little more, this wouldn't necessarily work the
way you want, I don't think.
The OBR resolver was written to so that it takes into account the
locally installed bundles. As such, the answer calculated would be
dependent upon the locally installed bundles, which may or may not be
precisely what you want.
So, perhaps we should consider making it possible to resolve a bundle
ignoring locally installed bundles, then you would get the correct set
to download.
-> Richard
Yeah, I feel where you are going with this. I don't want to have users download
anything, rather all the bundles would be packaged and installed with Felix
using Felix as the 'application container'.
Ok, maybe not the user downloading it, but as part of the packaging
step. In this case "the user" is the user of OBR, not your application.
-> richard
- Joel
-> richard
Also, is there an OSGi Log Service already part of Felix? Or better,
which Felix bundle provides the Log Service?
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