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Bug 337192

Summary:	[director] Director does not create -roaming installation if relative -destination is specified
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Equinox	Reporter:	Tobias Oberlies <t-oberlies>
Component:	p2	Assignee:	P2 Inbox <equinox.p2-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	beyhan.veliev, irbull, mknauer, pascal, thomas, tjwatson
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Tobias Oberlies

2011-02-15 05:13:56 EST

Build Identifier: Indigo M5

If I use the director application to create an installation from scratch, the installation will have roaming disabled (despite -roaming) if I pass a relative path as -destination.

Interestingly, the roaming property is first set to be true, but in the latest version of the profile it is false. I suspect that the logic that keeps the org.eclipse.equinox.p2.installFolder property in sync with the actual installation location chokes on the relative path set as installFolder, and as a consequence disables roaming.

This leads to two possible ways to fix this issue (but I don't know with one is better):
- Make the installFolder update logic cope with relative paths.
- Have the director write an absolute installFolder in the first place.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a product, e.g. the Eclipse SDK with the -roaming parameter and a relative destination; Example command line:

./eclipsec -nosplash -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director  -repository http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo/ -installIU org.eclipse.sdk.ide -profile DemoProfile -profileProperties org.eclipse.update.install.features=true -p2.os win32 -p2.ws win32 -p2.arch x86 -roaming -destination ../testinstall

2. Open the profile in the resulting installation; in the example, the newest file in ../testinstall/p2/org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine/profileRegistry/DemoProfile.profile/
It contains <property name='org.eclipse.equinox.p2.roaming' value='false'/>

Comment 1 Pascal Rapicault

2011-05-17 20:03:31 EDT

Moving off 3.7, I don't have the time to investigate. See also bug #344153

Comment 2 Thomas Watson

2011-08-31 10:32:36 EDT

Not going to make 3.7.1.  Deferring.

Comment 3 Ian Bull

2012-01-23 13:07:18 EST

Since there is nobody assigned, this will not be in 3.7.2.

Comment 4 Pascal Rapicault

2014-05-05 10:23:36 EDT

Unsetting old milestones

Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2019-03-23 18:03:20 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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The automated Eclipse Genie.

Comment 6 Lars Vogel

2019-10-08 10:49:49 EDT

This bug was marked as stalebug a while ago. Marking as wontfix.

If this report is still relevant for the current release, please
reopen and remove the stalebug whiteboard tag.