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| Summary: | Target Platform: locations not updated after eclipse upgrade | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] PDE | Reporter: | arne anka <eclipse-bugs> |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | wim.jongman |
| Version: | 4.5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | stalebug | ||
*** Bug 482209 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** (In reply to arne anka from comment #0) > after upgrade to mars sr1, i was plagued by a couple of bugs and researching > due to a different issue (plugin manifest editor -> extensions -> cann add > only "generic" and no schema files), i discovered the Target Platform. > > the locations part of the active and only Target Platform "Running Platform" > inluded both > ${eclipse_home} > and > $HOME/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_4.4.2_1473617060_linux_gtk_x86_64/plugins Did you install with the new eclipse installer (Oomph)? no, downloaded the Java Development flavor archive and extracted maybe i should clarify: - the extracted eclipse archive is put into a central read-only location to be used by differnet user accounts - everything installed by p2 later on ends up in $HOME/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_... 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. -- The automated Eclipse Genie. |
no idea what version is the right one: Eclipse IDE for Java Developers Version: Mars.1 Release (4.5.1) Build id: 20150924-1200 Eclipse PDE Plug-in Developer Resources 3.11.1.v20150904-0345 org.eclipse.pde.source.feature.group Eclipse.org first and foremost: to my recollection, i never created a Target Platform, let alone edited one. after upgrade to mars sr1, i was plagued by a couple of bugs and researching due to a different issue (plugin manifest editor -> extensions -> cann add only "generic" and no schema files), i discovered the Target Platform. the locations part of the active and only Target Platform "Running Platform" inluded both ${eclipse_home} and $HOME/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_4.4.2_1473617060_linux_gtk_x86_64/plugins now, 4.4.2 is the version i was upgrading from -- a look into .eclipse showed a new subfolder $HOME/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_4.5.1_1473617060_linux_gtk_x86_64/ where all newly installed plugins lived. changing the location thus to $HOME/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_4.5.1_1473617060_linux_gtk_x86_64/plugins fixed all my previous issues. since, as stated above, i cannot recall to have seen this dialog before nor edited, i can only assume the PDE did this by its own. which is entirely sensible since this is obviuosly a place to look for additional plugins by default, since it is created and used by P2 or whatever its name is now. BUT: this location was not updated after the upgrade to mars sr1, leaving me with a couple of badly explained issues. so, in short, PDE needs to check if the location still matches or, better, use a variable similar to ${eclipse_home} which always points to the current location below $HOMW/.eclipse/