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I tried recently to use the format attribute in a p2 mirror task, to avoid the destination repo having a .blobstore, and instead have the pack.gz files as siblings of the jars. I used the "source" repository, which was a composite repo, where each sub repo did have the packed jars as siblings. I got this idea from reading bug 312962. But, it didn't work. I am assuming because the source was a composite, so there wasn't much "format" to copy/reuse in the destination. I suppose I could have tried using one of the sub-repos as the "format source", but that isn't quite right (I should not have to know sub-repos, might have wrong name, or other properties, which I don't want ... what properties does it have, which are copied, or relevant? ... so, that's why I used the term "insufficient" in the bug title. Seems it would be better to have a "specification" to use for new repo, instead of having to copy from some old one. Such as format=packedFilesAsSiblings, etc. I tried to read more about the format attribute, and could only find this documentation: "A URL to another repository from which to copy the repository name and other properties." What? What other properties? all? some? I'm sure this sounds like a "dumb user question" to you p2 experts ... but, that's never stopped me before :) Just wanted to let you know one small item that makes it hard to understand and use p2.
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