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Bug 314678

Summary:

Feature from dropins is installed during second modification. Only plugins from feature are installed during first reconciliation.

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Equinox

Reporter:

Natalia Bartol <natalia.bartol>

Component:

Assignee:

P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED INVALID

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

pwebster

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
content.xml and artifacts.xml created for dropins operations	none
dropins	none

Description Natalia Bartol

2010-05-27 10:28:37 EDT

Build Identifier: I20100429-1549

1. Create a FeatureA with PluginA and add FeatureA to dropins. Start Eclipse.

ReconcilerProfileChangeRequest:
==Profile change request for SDKProfile
==Additions==
	PluginA 1.0.0.201005271557

content.xml and artifacts.xml files generated during installation are attached in FeatureAInstallationRepositories.

2. There is no FeatureA in "What's already installed" view but PluginA can be seen in Plug-in registry view.

3. Shut down Eclipse. Create FeatureB with PluginB and add to dropins. Start Eclipse.

ReconcilerProfileChangeRequest:
==Profile change request for SDKProfile
==Additions==
	FeatureA.feature.group 1.0.0.201005271557
	FeatureA.feature.jar 1.0.0.201005271557
	PluginB 1.0.0.201005271607

content.xml and artifacts.xml files generated during installation are attached in FeatureBInstallationRepositories.

4. Now there is FeatureA in "What's already installed". But there is no FetaureB. PluginA and PluginB can be seen in in Plug-in registry view.

Why only plugin from the feature is installed firstly? Why feature itself is installed during next modification of configuration? 
Is this designed to work this way? 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Natalia Bartol

2010-05-27 10:30:28 EDT

Created attachment 170190 [details]
content.xml and artifacts.xml created for dropins operations

Comment 2 DJ Houghton

2010-05-27 15:03:23 EDT

I am unable to reproduce this problem locally using a 3.6 build from this week on WinXP. I am creating a single feature with a single plugin and putting them in dropins/features and dropins/plugins and everything is installed fine on first startup and the feature appears in the Help -> About.

Can you attach the features/plug-ins that you are installing along with specific details to the paths you are putting them in the dropins? 

Thanks.

Comment 3 Natalia Bartol

2010-05-28 04:40:24 EDT

Created attachment 170309 [details]
dropins

FeatureA and FeatureB attached.

They are placed in:

eclipse/
   dropins/
       FeatureA/
           features/
           plugins/
       FeatureB/
           features/
           plugins/

Comment 4 Natalia Bartol

2010-05-28 06:29:35 EDT

This issue seems to be a little bit random - during tests I've observed that sometimes it works correctly and feature is installed at the first attempt.
But here are scenarios that repeat with vanilla eclipse-SDK-3.6RC1-win32:

Scenario 1.
download eclipse-SDK-3.6RC1-win32.zip and extract
start stop
start stop (to be sure that all initial reconciliation is done)
add feature to dropins 
start
only plugin is installed
stop
start again
feature still not present, only plugin can be seen

Scenario 2.
download eclipse-SDK-3.6RC1-win32.zip and extract
before start add feature to dropins
start
only plugin is installed
stop
start again
feature installed

Issue with second reconciliation may have meaning here...  Bug 313905

Comment 5 DJ Houghton

2010-05-31 11:56:26 EDT

The bundles/features that you attached are from an update site. That is, the features are in JAR form rather than runnable/expanded form and the metadata matches this. This is not a supported format for the drop-ins folder.

If you expand the features into runnable form and remove the metadata (to allow the publisher to re-generate it) then everything will be installed correctly on the first start-up.