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Bug 267926

Summary:	Profile preferences not accessible in shared install
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	John Arthorne <john.arthorne>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	contact, irbull, simon_kaegi
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description John Arthorne

2009-03-10 13:41:30 EDT

I20090309-1800

 - Install eclipse as administrator into c:\Program Files\eclipse
 - Start eclipse as regular user

-> No repositories are available. The profile that gets spoofed up for the shared install doesn't have access to the profile preferences set in the parent (surrogate?) profile.

Comment 1 Simon Kaegi

2009-03-10 13:46:41 EDT

To be celar, this is not new behavior. The preferences have never cascaded.

Comment 2 John Arthorne

2009-03-10 13:51:18 EDT

Ok, good to know. I hadn't decided in my mind yet if this was a bad thing or not. The administrator might want to use different sites to configure the system, and not have these sites bleed through to regular users...

Comment 3 Simon Kaegi

2009-03-10 13:54:52 EDT

To be honest I haven't decided one way or the other either. I don't really want to close so instead I'll make it an enhancement request for now.

Comment 4 Simon Kaegi

2009-03-11 14:00:02 EDT

*** Bug 234927 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Andrew Overholt

2009-03-12 14:56:17 EDT

I'm not going to pretend to know all the implications, but having the repositories available in cascaded profiles would prevent me having to tell people who use our RPMs how to add the release train repos to their list of repositories.

Comment 6 John Arthorne

2009-07-10 17:04:19 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 249133 ***