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Greetings: I am not sure if mirrors can be used for updates to new features from eclipse. I find this feature to be useful for other software like Cygwin because it can signifigantly speed up the update process. I ran into this issue this morning when trying to udate the new 3.0 release and it was really slow.
This is not 100% of what you asked, but it should solve the problem, as long as you know what the mirror sites are or if you mirror it locally for all the users in your organization. http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-update- home/doc/working/update-policy.html For mirroring, you can also use eclipse to mirror an update site (check the end of the document): http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-update- home/doc/working/documentation/standalone_update.html
I've added support for update site mirrors as follows: - an update site can (optionally) list other update site mirrors by adding <mirror> element at the end of the site.xml file. site.xml <site> <feature ..../> ..... <category-def .../> ... <mirror url="http://server/update/site/" label="Label the user will see"/> <mirror ..../> - when a user is looking for updates or new features using the install wizard, for each site that is being searched, the user will be prompted to (optionally) pick a mirror site. If a mirror site is picked, then that site is being looked up for features. Sonia, I cc:ed you to see whether the eclipse update site can be mirrored, just like the download pages.
re-openning the bug: Because the site.xml parser does not accept new elements, eclipse 3.0 or older clients, cannot successfully parse a 3.1 site.xml. As such, updating to 3.1 when a mirror is present in site.xml is not possible. The new implementation will provide the following fix: No longer accept the <mirror> elements as part of site.xml. Instead, the <site> element will have an optional new attribute mirrorsURL that will point to another xml file containing mirror definitions. The old definition of <mirror> elements will be supported inside this new file. Here is an example: site.xml <site mirrorsURL="http://eclipse.org/mirrors.xml"> <feature ..../> ..... <category-def .../> .... </site> mirrors.xml <mirrors> <mirror url="http://server/update/site/" label="Label for site" /> <mirror ..../> </mirrors>
fixed as per my latest comment.
I've also added support for relative mirror sites url, as in site.xml <site mirrorsURL="mirrors.xml"> <feature ..../> .... </site> in which case mirrors.xml is picked up from the same location as site.xml. This code will go into next week's integration build (m4)
Does the information in this bug show up in the update help book, now? If not it should be added.
This has been documented in the isv book but what's new is in the user's guide. org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/update_sitemap.html
