Indexing subsystem esa files

[Paul F Fraser <pa...@a2zliving.com>]

Hi,

David Bosschaert in his youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In5Wd4XsmsY has esa files 
indexed so that required subsystems can be discovered and used during subsystem install.

Earlier discussion (jan 2015)  indicated that David got this to work by manually adding entries to 
the index.xml file.

Also the spec allows subsystems to be included as content in parent subsystems.

Is the solution to this to include the child subsystem(s) in the parent esa and not expect 
subsystems to be picked up from repositories?

Regards

Paul Fraser

Re: Indexing subsystem esa files

[David Bosschaert <da...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Paul, yes that video was produced by EclipseCon Europe where I did a
talk about this subject :)
If I remember it well there were plans to enhance the bndtools
repoindex tool (
https://github.com/bndtools/bnd/blob/master/REPOINDEX.md ) to support
generation of metadata for subsystem archives. I'm not sure how far
that work has moved along, but I'll try to find out...

Cheers,

David

On 1 October 2015 at 14:01, John Ross <jw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't speak to the youtube video or manually adding subsystem entries to
> the index.html file, but it's certainly true that you can include other
> subsystems as content of a subsystem. If a resource with a matching
> osgi.identity capability is visible through one of the repositories (local,
> system, content, preferred provider, or repository services), then the child
> subsystems should be installed as part of the parent subsystem installation.
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Paul F Fraser <pa...@a2zliving.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> David Bosschaert in his youtube video
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In5Wd4XsmsY has esa files indexed so that
>> required subsystems can be discovered and used during subsystem install.
>>
>> Earlier discussion (jan 2015)  indicated that David got this to work by
>> manually adding entries to the index.xml file.
>>
>> Also the spec allows subsystems to be included as content in parent
>> subsystems.
>>
>> Is the solution to this to include the child subsystem(s) in the parent
>> esa and not expect subsystems to be picked up from repositories?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Paul Fraser
>
>

Re: Indexing subsystem esa files

[John Ross <jw...@gmail.com>]

I can't speak to the youtube video or manually adding subsystem entries to
the index.html file, but it's certainly true that you can include other
subsystems as content of a subsystem. If a resource with a matching
osgi.identity capability is visible through one of the repositories (local,
system, content, preferred provider, or repository services), then the
child subsystems should be installed as part of the parent subsystem
installation.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Paul F Fraser <pa...@a2zliving.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> David Bosschaert in his youtube video
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In5Wd4XsmsY has esa files indexed so that
> required subsystems can be discovered and used during subsystem install.
>
> Earlier discussion (jan 2015)  indicated that David got this to work by
> manually adding entries to the index.xml file.
>
> Also the spec allows subsystems to be included as content in parent
> subsystems.
>
> Is the solution to this to include the child subsystem(s) in the parent
> esa and not expect subsystems to be picked up from repositories?
>
> Regards
>
> Paul Fraser
>