Re: [tycho-user] Bundling JREs with my Product

Hi Simon,
thanks for the suggestion. I will try to give a look at it.
What I was able to achieve right now is more or less the same.
I used in my product pom.xml the maven-antrun-plugin in order to
perform the chmod operation during the package phase.
>From the first test it seems to be enough, for example in Linux,
setting permissions to 755 to the jre/bin folder content.

I will try to achieve the same stuff using the touchpoint.

Best regards,
Massimo.

2013/7/11 Simon Goodall <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> I've only tried this when building my features on windows. If packaging the
> jre on Linux does not retain the file permissions then you could look at
> adding calls to the chmod touchpoint [1] in your p2.inf to set the correct
> permissions for each required file.
>
> [1]
> http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Fguide%2Fp2_actions_touchpoints.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
>
> On 11 July 2013 09:13, Massimo Rabbi <massimo.rabbi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I've tried the approach mentioned in the blog article, posted some
>> mails ago. This one:
>>
>> http://codeiseasy.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/including-a-jre-in-a-tycho-build/
>> Therefore I've created the main feature including the optional ones
>> specific for every operating system configuration (macosx 64bit, linux
>> 32/64bit and windows 32/64bit). I've used the solution with p2.inf
>> file, hoping this will allow to update smoothly the JRE in the future.
>> In my build.properties I've included the jre folder (already
>> exploded). And my final product eclipse.ini will have the vm
>> installation specified with the -vm flag pointing to the correct
>> feature subfolder.
>>
>> The problem is that in the final produced product the jre folder
>> inside the dedicated feature does not have the original permissions.
>> This is not a problem for Windows but for Linux and Mac OS X, not
>> having executable flags for the files contained in the bin subfolders
>> lead to not recognize the JRE installation as valid.
>> By the way I'm building on Mac OS X 10.7.4, but I also tried in Linux
>> Mint 15 Oliva.
>>
>> Did anyone experienced a similar problem?
>> Doug the solution you use with generate-resource phase, does it keep
>> the permissions?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Best regards,
>> Massimo.
>>
>> 2013/6/18 Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>:
>> > This is maven, so, yes, this is being done as part of our product build
>> > and
>> > we redistribute all of it. We just pre-download the JRE and put it on a
>> > local server so we don't lose it. My pom for the feature downloads and
>> > extracts the JRE from there as part of the generate-resource phase.
>> >
>> > Mind you, we don't change JREs very often. If you're trying to keep up
>> > with
>> > the latest JREs then I'm not sure Oracle's interface will allow that.
>> >
>> > Doug.
>> >
>> > From: Simon Goodall <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Reply-To: Tycho user list <tycho-user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Date: Tuesday, 18 June, 2013 10:58 AM
>> > To: Tycho user list <tycho-user@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Subject: Re: [tycho-user] Bundling JREs with my Product
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > In the past Oracle's licensing terms (as I understood them) forbid
>> > automatic
>> > downloads of the JRE/JDK or redistribution in a more convenient format.
>> > However you can include it as part of your application. I am not sure if
>> > things have changed since I last looked. The latest hudson version still
>> > has
>> > the automatic jdk install disabled with a note to the same Hudson-9016
>> > bug
>> > referenced in the blog post. The Jenkins build server does have this
>> > support
>> > enabled - essentially it programmatically navigates the oracle website
>> > using
>> > your oracle developer network credentials.
>> >
>> > Simon
>> >
>> >
>> > On 18 June 2013 15:30, Laurent PETIT <laurent.petit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 2013/6/18 Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx>:
>> >> > Or Google it. I'm using the following I found through a search:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > http://codeiseasy.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/including-a-jre-in-a-tycho-build
>> >> > /
>> >> >
>> >> > Doug.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hello Doug,
>> >>
>> >> I have come across this July 2012 link.
>> >> If you think it's the panacea, good for you, but for me it's far from
>> >> ideal, and that's why I'm asking for an update on the best way of
>> >> doing things currently, e.g. a year later.
>> >>
>> >> Especially, this last bit annoys me a lot, and I'd like to know if
>> >> there's a better way:
>> >>
>> >> "The only piece left is to obtain the JRE itself. Unfortunately the
>> >> Oracle JRE’s cannot be downloaded direct from Orcale automatically
>> >> (see e.g. here) so they must be manually downloaded, installed and the
>> >> the jre directory copied across for each version and platform you need
>> >> to support."
>> >>
>> >> Seems like repetitive / tedious / error prone work that could be
>> >> avoided if there's a central place to put each new public revision of
>> >> say open jdk 7.
>> >> A maven repo ?
>> >> A p2 repository ?
>> >> Already done ? Where ?
>> >>
>> >> That's why, among other things, I ask here on the ml, to humans, and
>> >> not just the google bot.
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Laurent
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