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Bug 56922

Summary: Update won't install to an extension location
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Matthew Conway <matt>
Component: Update (deprecated - use Eclipse>Equinox>p2)Assignee: Platform-Update-Inbox <platform-update-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Matthew Conway CLA 2004-03-31 11:07:27 EST 
I'm running eclipse on a Linux machine, and the best way I've found so far for
separating my installed plugins from the core eclipse install is to create a
directory in my home directory containing all my features/plugins and a
.eclipseextension file.  This way I can link to that directory from the Manage
Configuration dialog by adding an extension location that points to that dir,
and upgrades of eclipse are just a simple matter of replacing my eclipse install.

The Find/Install (update site) mechanism seems to work in a similar way, except
that it uses a .eclipseUM file instead of .eclipse extension.  Ideally I'd like
to be able to use Find/install to install into the same directory I have all my
manually installed plugins/features, but it won't let me add a site in the
Find/Install dialog as it thinks the site already exists.

Please let me know if there is a better way of doing all this as I haven't been
able to find any docs on the matter.

This is on 3.0M8
Comment 1 Dorian Birsan CLA 2004-03-31 11:23:09 EST 
Dup of bug 39890.
Should be fixed for M9.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39890 ***