Details for Uploading Main Rodin Update Site
Since April 5th, 2012, the Rodin update site has the newer p2 format.
From a release engineer point of view, the main change is that instead of uploading 'site.xml' to the rodin web space, you will just commit 'content.jar' and 'artifacts.jar' to SVN. This page explains how to generate these two files.
If you're interested in internal details, you can take a look at How we set up the p2 update site on SourceForge.
There are some few rules to follow when providing contents to the main Rodin update site, please take a look at them.
Using site.xml
Even though 'site.xml' is no more present on the remote update site, it can be used locally to publish new features (or new versions of existing features).
- make sure your workspace copy of the plugin project org.rodinp.updateSite is synchronised with the SVN repository.
- open 'site.xml' with the Site Manifest Editor
- add your feature to the relevant category (no need to give artifact url)
- click 'Build': 'content.jar' and 'artifacts.jar' get updated, 'features' and 'plugins' directories are created (do NOT click 'Build All', it would overwrite the update site !)
- test locally, using org.rodinp.updateSite as local update site; in particular, check that other plug-ins on the update site are still listed
- upload the jars generated by the build as usual in your plugin's area on SourceForge FRS
- test remotely by uploading 'content.jar' and 'artifacts.jar' to /home/project-web/rodin-b-sharp/htdocs/test-updates on the rodin web space, and using 'http://rodin-b-sharp.sourceforge.net/test-updates' as remote update site (see #Remote test)
- commit 'content.jar' and 'artifacts.jar' to SVN: it actually updates the Rodin Update Site itself
- test using the standard Rodin Update Site (you may need to reload it)
So 'site.xml' is no more uploaded nor committed to SVN, it is really just there to help working with 'content.jar' and 'artifacts.jar'. In particular, if for some reason you want to commit it nevertheless, take care not to commit the post 'Build' version, as it mixes everything up.
Externally built feature
That's the scripted way to proceed. If you are using scripts to build your feature (that is, without a running eclipse interface):
- ensure that your build scripts produce a repository (like 'buildRepo')
- categorize the repository (see below)
- launch the 'publishFeature.xml' ant script in org.rodinp.updateSite on the categorized repository (modifying the 'featureRepo' property in the launch config) to update 'content.jar' and 'artifacts.jar'.
Messages like
[p2.mirror] Problems resolving provisioning plan. [p2.mirror] Unable to satisfy dependency from <my plugin> to bundle org.eventb.ui 0.0.0.
are normal, it just indicates that the repository does not contain core bundles.
From this point, continue the same as with 'site.xml', from 'test locally' on.
Categorizing a build repository
Build repositories are not categorized by default. To assign a built feature a category, we have to use the Category Publisher:
- copy the build repository somewhere, we'll call that somewhere $REPO (it ensures you can relaunch categorization if something goes wrong, without rebuilding your feature)
- write a category file
- run the Category Publisher
To make things concrete, here are sample files for categorizing the B2LaTeX plug-in:
category.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<site>
<feature id="ac.soton.eventb.latex.feature">
<category name="Utilities"/>
</feature>
<category-def name="Utilities" label="Utilities"/>
</site>
catPub.sh:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre
ECLIPSE_HOME=/path/to/eclipse
REPO=/path/to/buildRepo/copy
CAT_FOLDER=/path/to/category/folder
$JAVA_HOME/bin/java \
-jar $ECLIPSE_HOME/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_*.jar \
-application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.publisher.CategoryPublisher \
-metadataRepository file:/$REPO \
-categoryDefinition file:/$CAT_FOLDER/category.xml
Remote test
Copy 'content.jar' and 'artifacts.jar' from your eclipse workspace to you user home directory (this just makes it easier to locate the file from the terminal command line since the user home directory is the default local directory in Terminal) Open the Terminal utility and enter the following commands replacing <sourceforgeusername> and <sourceforgepassword>:
Last login: Tue May 17 21:22:29 on console dhcp-152-78-95-201:~ <localusername>$ sftp <sourceforgeusername>,rodin-b-sharp@web.sourceforge.net Connecting to web.sourceforge.net... <sourceforgeusername>,rodin-b-sharp@web.sourceforge.net's password: <sourceforgepassword> sftp> cd htdocs/test-updates sftp> ls -a . .. .htaccess sftp> put content.jar Uploading content.jar to /home/project-web/rodin-b-sharp/htdocs/test-updates/content.jar content.jar 100% 82KB 82.3KB/s 00:01 sftp> chmod 644 content.jar Changing mode on /home/project-web/rodin-b-sharp/htdocs/test-updates/content.jar sftp> put artifacts.jar Uploading artifacts.jar to /home/project-web/rodin-b-sharp/htdocs/test-updates/artifacts.jar artifacts.jar 100% 8975 8.8KB/s 00:00 sftp> chmod 644 artifacts.jar Changing mode on /home/project-web/rodin-b-sharp/htdocs/test-updates/artifacts.jar
You can then try this remote update site from a running Rodin platform. To do this, just add the remote site to the list of available sites (which will look like below)
Rodin Remote Test Update Site - http://rodin-b-sharp.sourceforge.net/test-updates
and select it.
The .htaccess file redirects plugins/*.jar and features/*.jar requests to SourceForge FRS, thus using the archives that you have uploaded.
Once the test is complete, please remove the jars:
sftp> rm *.jar Removing /home/project-web/rodin-b-sharp/htdocs/test-updates/artifacts.jar Removing /home/project-web/rodin-b-sharp/htdocs/test-updates/content.jar
