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Bug 213086

Summary: http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede/ does not exist
Product: Community Reporter: Bernd Kolb <b.kolb>
Component: Cross-ProjectAssignee: Cross-Project issues <cross-project.inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: mober.at+eclipse, nboldt
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Bernd Kolb CLA 2007-12-15 05:06:31 EST 
The updatesite for ganymede does not exist. It should be created (even if it is an emty site.xml) to prevent the update manager from crashing.
Comment 1 Denis Roy CLA 2007-12-15 13:38:10 EST 
Moving to cross-project.
Comment 2 Nick Boldt CLA 2007-12-15 15:19:24 EST 
In the short term, to redirect people from /releases/ganymede/ to /releases/ganymede/staging/ all you need is a site.xml file with a modified mirrorsURL:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<site mirrorsURL="http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/releases/ganymede/staging/site.xml&amp;format=xml">
        <description url="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Ganymede_Simultaneous_Release/For_Users">
        This site is not ready yet. To get your bleeding edge updates, use this URL: http://download.eclipse.org/releases/ganymede/staging/
        </description>
</site>

I'd put that file there right now but I'm not in callistoadmin, just callisto-dev. :(
Comment 3 Nick Boldt CLA 2007-12-15 15:25:14 EST 
We could also post a policy.xml file [1] (linked in the Wiki, perhaps?) that people could use to make Eclipse use a different Ganymede URL than the default one (until such time as we start cloning staging to production on a regular basis, as was done last year for Europa).

[1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Using_Policy_Files
Comment 4 Martin Oberhuber CLA 2008-03-13 16:21:18 EDT 
Apparently the directory exists now, so I think this can be fixed. If we still want a policy file distributed, this should be a separate bug I'd think.