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Bug 321341

Summary: subsequent Build All fail to show categories
Product: [Eclipse Project] Equinox Reporter: Liviu Ionescu <ilg>
Component: p2Assignee: Ian Bull <irbull>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 CC: eclipse, harawata, ilg, irbull, mvidal0001, nbaccount
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Macintosh   
OS: Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)   
Whiteboard: stalebug
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Description Flags
side to side comparison of good/bad generated files none

Description Liviu Ionescu CLA 2010-07-30 09:25:35 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

The first Build All for an update site project works just fine, but subsequent builds damage the categories. This means that the generated update site is correct only after the first build. Cleaning it and running Build All for the second/third/etc time generates different content/artifacts.xml, making Eclipse not recognize the categories.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create an update site project, add a category and a feature
2. build the project
3. use it as an update site; the category will be visible
4. clear the project (remove the .jar files from features/*.jar, plugins/.jar, artifacts.jar, content.jar)
5. build again the project
6. use it as an update site; the category will NOT be visible
7. clear the project (remove the .jar files from features/*.jar, plugins/.jar, artifacts.jar, content.jar)
8. in the site.xml graphical window, remove the feature below the category
9. add again the feature
10. build the project
11. use it as an update site; the category will again be visible!!!
Comment 1 Liviu Ionescu CLA 2010-07-30 09:32:12 EDT 
Created attachment 175575 [details]
side to side comparison of good/bad generated files

the archive contains artifacts.xml/content.xml for the first and second build.

there are obvious differences between them, from the order of elements to more complex differences.
Comment 2 Ian Bull CLA 2010-08-04 18:06:17 EDT 
*** Bug 321285 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Ian Bull CLA 2010-08-05 13:07:17 EDT 
Let me see what's going on here.  I'm not sure if this is a PDE thing or a p2 thing.
Comment 4 John Arthorne CLA 2011-01-24 10:31:27 EST 
Ian please update the target milestone.
Comment 5 Ian Bull CLA 2011-02-25 18:44:15 EST 
Sorry, I've not had a chance to look at this.
Comment 6 Sam Davis CLA 2011-09-12 19:27:31 EDT 
When creating update sites in this way, I find that the categories show up only occasionally, and not necessarily the first time I build the site.
Comment 7 Mat Vidal CLA 2013-05-24 13:49:01 EDT 
This bug make me crazy ... how "update site" project can be used ???!!!
Comment 8 Sam Davis CLA 2013-05-24 14:19:03 EDT 
Yeah, this is a serious bug IMO.
Comment 9 Eclipse Genie CLA 2019-08-29 11:18:08 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 10 Liviu Ionescu CLA 2019-08-29 11:28:53 EDT 
I'm not able to test it right now due to a reinstalling blues... :-(

Perhaps someone else can check?