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Bug 322507

Summary:	On a read-only installation, installing two sets of features into ~/.eclipse make both unavailable
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Michel Alexandre Salim <michel.salim>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	niels, pascal, pwebster, remy.suen
Version:	3.5.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Michel Alexandre Salim

2010-08-12 07:34:13 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100218-1602

If the eclipse directory is read-only, user-installed features are installed in ~/.eclipse . This works fine the first time the user requests a set of features to be installed (after restarting, the feature(s) work), but after installing a second set of features, both are disabled.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Eclipse
2. Set installation to read-only (chmod -R u-w eclipse)
3. Try installing the following, wiping ~/.eclipse after each try
- Android ADT then Scala IDE
- Scala IDE then Android ADT
- Android ADT then PyDev
- PyDev then Android ADT
- Android ADT then Google Plugin for Eclipse

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2010-08-12 07:46:39 EDT

Issues and concerns about the provisioning system goes to Equinox/p2.

Comment 2 Pascal Rapicault

2011-06-12 22:11:58 EDT

I tested this in 3.7 and it works.

Comment 3 Michel Alexandre Salim

2011-06-14 04:05:38 EDT

Tested and confirmed working with 3.6.2 and 3.7.0 RC4 (both on x86_64)