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openmike
openmike

Reputation: 272

Install multiple Eclipse plugins via update site

I want to create a bundled Eclipse update site for a single install of multiple plugins using the Eclipse Update Manager.

Our developers use the following common plugins for development, all of which I'd like bundled:

EGit - Git Team Provider
<url><update label="Eclipse EGit Update Site" url="http://download.eclipse.org/egit/updates"/></url>

Maven SCM Plugin
<url><update label="Maven Integration Extras" url="http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e-extras/"/></url>

Maven SCM Handler for Subversive
<url><update label="objectledge.org m2e connectors" url="http://objectledge.github.com/maven-extensions/connectors/updates/"/></url>

Maven Integration for Eclipse
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases/1.0/1.0.200.20111228-1245<url>

Subversive -SVN team Leader
<update url="http://download.eclipse.org/technology/subversive/1.0/update-site/" label="Subversive update site 1.0.x"/>
<discovery url="http://download.eclipse.org/technology/subversive/1.0/update-site/" label="Subversive update site 1.0.x"/></url>


Subversive SVN Connectors
<url><update label="Subversive connectors update site 2.3.x" url="http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/3.0/update-site/"/>

SVN Kit 1.3.7
<discovery label="Subversive connectors update site 2.3.x" url="http://community.polarion.com/projects/subversive/download/eclipse/3.0/update-site/"/>
   </url>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1180

Answers (1)

Bananeweizen
Bananeweizen

Reputation: 22070

Alternative 1: Composite repositories

With a composite repository you have basically a "super" update site, pointing to all the other update sites. You only need to take the 2 files from the Eclipse help and add all your update site locations as child location at the bottom.

Drawback: When you go to this update site, you can install all the plugins from all the sites, not only the ones you wanted.

Alternative 2: Update site mirroring

With the deprecated update command line manager application in Eclipse you can mirror single features from remote update sites to a local update site. I've not yet found that ability in the new P2 director application.

Benefit: That way your developers really only get the features you want. Drawback: You need to do some more scripting.

Alternative 3: Manually import the listed features in one step (click "Install/Update" link afterwards)

If you have installed those features on one machine, you can use File -> Export -> Installation -> From existing installation to create a small text file containing those features and their update sites. Your other developers can import those using File -> Import -> Installation -> Install software items from file.

Benefit: No scripting, no update site hosting necessary. You can manage that export file in a version control system easily. Drawback: Not started from update manager UI (but uses the same underlying P2 techniques).

Upvotes: 4

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