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Bug 249638

Summary:	Feature pack.gz files are not published using EclipseGenerator
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Andrew Cattle <agcattle>
Component:	Releng	Assignee:	Kim Moir <kim.moir>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	pascal
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Andrew Cattle

2008-10-03 14:50:48 EDT

I've noticed that unlike plug-ins, the generator does not check to see if a feature is a pack.gz when generating the repository.

This doesn't actually save very much space per file (around 2kb on a 30kb file) so do we really care?

Is this causing duplicate entries in the repository?

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2008-10-03 16:56:04 EDT

I seem to remember that we don't pack feature JARs on purpose because they most likely don't contain any code.

Not sure what you mean about the duplicate entries in repo thing.

Comment 2 Pascal Rapicault

2008-10-04 13:41:21 EDT

I also thought that there was no gain in packing the feature however when you look at the folder containing the features on downlaod.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5-I-builds/features you can see that there pack.gz files present.

Moving to releng since we are doing work that we don't need to do.

Comment 3 Andrew Cattle

2008-10-06 07:57:47 EDT

For more information about the duplicate entries in the artifacts.xml, see Bug 249035

Comment 4 Kim Moir

2008-10-10 10:42:50 EDT

The pack.properties file needs to include a list of features in the pack.excludes list as defined in the updatePackProperties target of buildAll.xml in org.eclipse.releng.eclipsebuilder

Comment 5 Kim Moir

2009-02-27 11:56:30 EST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 263242 ***