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Bug 288688

Summary:	[P2] default update sites don't come up in read-only shared install
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Gergely Nagy <gergely.nagy>
Component:	Runtime	Assignee:	platform-runtime-inbox <platform-runtime-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	remy.suen
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Gergely Nagy

2009-09-04 19:44:27 EDT

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061212 Iceweasel/3.0.12 (Debian-3.0.12-1)
Build Identifier: M20090828-0800

After installing 3.5.0 - 3.5.1RC2 in a read-only directory (a.k.a. "shared install", e.g. on Linux: /usr/local/eclipse), the P2 update site lists are empty.
It should contain the default one for Galileo and platform updates (http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo and http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.5 I think).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have an Eclipse 3.5.x install in a read-only directory (e.g /usr/local/eclipse on Linux)
2. start eclipse as a user
3. go to Preference | Install/Update | Available software -> the list is empty
4. try to install new software -> nothing will found by default



This used to work on 3.3 and probably in 3.4.
Also, it does work if you install Eclipse in user's home (or any dir with write access).
Workaround: add the sites manually. Hint: use Ekke's list: http://ekkescorner.wordpress.com/eclipse/update-sites. Could not find anything as useful at eclipse.org.

Comment 1 Gergely Nagy

2009-09-04 19:48:44 EDT

The problem is there on 3.6M1 as well.

Comment 2 Remy Suen

2009-09-04 19:52:35 EDT


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