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Build Identifier: Even if there is a backup it would be sometimes useful to edit an existing artifact repo or metadatarepo. At moment I see no other option than using command line tool or edit the file by hand. Publishing is done with using the feature export wizard, but I cannot find any way to edit the updatesites content via gui. This was much better with the old system using updatesites with site.xml. Reproducible: Always
If I'm not mistaken, I think the buckminster project had some tooling support for repositories.
(In reply to comment #1) > If I'm not mistaken, I think the buckminster project had some tooling support > for repositories. Yup, see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Metadata_Authoring
Well I sent it too fast. It actually is tooling for IUs, more than tooling for repos. But my team had worked on a metadata repository editor a while ago (see this wiki page: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Metadata_Repository_Authoring) We used EMF API on top of p2 API to ease the creation of the editors (undo/redo support, drag&drop, outline... all of this comes pretty much for free ;)). I could help making this available to the community (in the Equinox incubator) if there's a demand for it!
(In reply to comment #3) > Well I sent it too fast. It actually is tooling for IUs, more than tooling for > repos. > > But my team had worked on a metadata repository editor a while ago (see this > wiki page: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Metadata_Repository_Authoring) > We used EMF API on top of p2 API to ease the creation of the editors (undo/redo > support, drag&drop, outline... all of this comes pretty much for free ;)). > I could help making this available to the community (in the Equinox incubator) > if there's a demand for it! This is also (to some extend) what the Eclipse b3 aggregator project does. There is an EMF model and a tree for editing an aggregation model consisting of p2 repositories. The b3 aggregator UI allows the user to create some new information, but basically filters, transforms, aggregates and validates repositories, and then creates aggregated or merged repositories in p2 and/or maven form. The http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox_p2_Metadata_Authoring was an experiment, and it is quite dated. Not recommended for use.
(In reply to comment #4) > This is also (to some extend) what the Eclipse b3 aggregator project does. > There is an EMF model and a tree for editing an aggregation model consisting of > p2 repositories. > I should have added that It has an EMF model of p2 (that can also be used in a free standing way to load and manipulate p2 repositories programmatically).
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