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Bug 326207

Summary:	Cannot build an update site - feature.xml seems corrupt
Product:	[Eclipse Project] PDE	Reporter:	Channing Walton <channingwalton>
Component:	Build	Assignee:	pde-build-inbox <pde-build-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	kmbulebu, wwarren
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:

Description Channing Walton

2010-09-24 17:51:30 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

Trying to build an update site I got the following error:


org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Problems parsing the feature file:/Users/channing/Code/apps/eclipse-3.6/features/org.eclipse.pde.junit.runtime.addon_1.0.0.v20100610/feature.xml.
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeFeatureFactory.parseBuildFeature(BuildTimeFeatureFactory.java:85)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeFeatureFactory.createFeature(BuildTimeFeatureFactory.java:50)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeSite.createFeature(BuildTimeSite.java:465)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.compatibility.FeatureReference.getFeature(FeatureReference.java:38)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeSite.resolveFeatureReferences(BuildTimeSite.java:325)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeSite.findFeature(BuildTimeSite.java:294)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeSite.findFeature(BuildTimeSite.java:286)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.BuildScriptGenerator.generateFeatures(BuildScriptGenerator.java:237)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.BuildScriptGenerator.generate(BuildScriptGenerator.java:112)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.exports.FeatureExportOperation.doExport(FeatureExportOperation.java:258)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.exports.FeatureBasedExportOperation.run(FeatureBasedExportOperation.java:50)
at org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.exports.SiteBuildOperation.run(SiteBuildOperation.java:65)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
Contains: Error parsing feature: "require" must include at least one "import" element.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Wayne Warren

2011-01-31 14:25:19 EST

(In reply to comment #0)
> Build Identifier: 20100617-1415
> 
> Trying to build an update site I got the following error:
> 
> 
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: Problems parsing the feature
> file:/Users/channing/Code/apps/eclipse-3.6/features/org.eclipse.pde.junit.runtime.addon_1.0.0.v20100610/feature.xml.
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeFeatureFactory.parseBuildFeature(BuildTimeFeatureFactory.java:85)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeFeatureFactory.createFeature(BuildTimeFeatureFactory.java:50)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeSite.createFeature(BuildTimeSite.java:465)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.compatibility.FeatureReference.getFeature(FeatureReference.java:38)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeSite.resolveFeatureReferences(BuildTimeSite.java:325)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeSite.findFeature(BuildTimeSite.java:294)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.site.BuildTimeSite.findFeature(BuildTimeSite.java:286)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.BuildScriptGenerator.generateFeatures(BuildScriptGenerator.java:237)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.build.BuildScriptGenerator.generate(BuildScriptGenerator.java:112)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.exports.FeatureExportOperation.doExport(FeatureExportOperation.java:258)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.exports.FeatureBasedExportOperation.run(FeatureBasedExportOperation.java:50)
> at
> org.eclipse.pde.internal.core.exports.SiteBuildOperation.run(SiteBuildOperation.java:65)
> at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
> Contains: Error parsing feature: "require" must include at least one "import"
> element.
> 
> 
> Reproducible: Always

I had a similar problem. I made the following change to my "eclipse/features/org.eclipse.pde.junit.runtime.addon_1.0.0.v20100610/feature.xml". file to uh..."fix" it:

    <requires id="org.eclipse.core.runtime" download-size="0"
install-size="0" version="0.0.0" unpack="false"/>

to

   <requires> 
           <import id="org.eclipse.core.runtime" download-size="0"
install-size="0" version="0.0.0" unpack="false"/>
   </requires>

After this, my export worked as expected. I don't know why this happened now because last week I was exporting without a problem. I have re-extracted Eclipse since then but it is the same tarball. Who knows, from where such an error grows? I clip the weeds to meet my needs and go on with life bereft of strife. (in all seriousness, i hope i get an email update if someone else actually fixes this because i would like to know)

Comment 2 Kevin Bulebush

2011-05-25 13:56:22 EDT

Confirmed using PDE in Indigo RC1 with Helios SR2 as the target platform.

Comment 3 Lars Vogel

2018-12-03 09:04:48 EST

Currently we are not actively enhancing PDE build anymore. Therefore, I close this bug as WONTFIX. 

Please reopen, if you plan to provide a fix.