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| <h1>Feature Builds with p2</h1> |
| <p>Defining the new property:</p> |
| <div align="center"><tt><b>p2.gathering = true</b></tt></div> |
| <p>will cause a <a href="pde_p2_builds.htm#gathering_overview">few changes</a> for feature builds. See also the page for <a href="pde_p2_featuremetadata.htm">feature metadata layout</a>.</p> |
| <p>In particular, instead of producing per-platform archives, the build will produce a single p2 repository which is a group of all the platforms. Effectively this is forcing an implicit <tt><b>groupConfigurations=true</b></tt>.</p> |
| <p>The following is a list of related properties (old and new):</p> |
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| <tr><td><tt><b>p2.gathering</b></tt></td><td>Set to <tt><b>true</b></tt> to turn on p2 publisher based builds.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>p2.build.repo</tt></td><td>A URI to the local build time p2 repository, default is <tt>file:${buildDirectory}/buildRepo</tt>. Results will be mirrored from here to the final archive location.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>groupConfigurations</tt></td><td><tt>p2.gathering=true</tt> has the implicit effect of setting <tt>groupConfigurations=true</tt>. To control the <a href="pde_controlling_output.htm">output format</a> of the archive use the <tt>group.group.group</tt> configuration.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>generate.p2.metadata</tt></td><td>This is property for the old <a href="pde_p2_integration.htm">metadata generator integration</a>. It has no effect when <tt>p2.gathering=true</tt>.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>p2.metadata.repo<br>p2.artifact.repo</tt></td> |
| <td>These properties were associated with <tt>generate.p2.metadata</tt> and have no effect on feature builds when <tt>p2.gathering=true</tt> because the default behaviour in this case is to create a p2 repository. (However, these properties do affect <a href="pde_p2_productbuilds.htm">product builds</a>).</td> |
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| <tr><td><tt>p2.metadata.repo.name<br>p2.artifact.repo.name</tt></td><td>Optional, these properties will be used to name the final feature repository.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>p2.compress</tt></td><td>Set to <tt>true</tt> to compress the final feature repository xml into a jar.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>p2.flavor</tt></td><td>No effect for feature builds, but does affect <a href="pde_p2_productbuilds.htm">product builds</a>.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>p2.publish.artifacts</tt></td><td>No effect when <tt>p2.gathering=true</tt> (Old property)</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>p2.root.name<br>p2.root.version</tt></td><td>No effect when <tt>p2.gathering=true</tt> (Old property)</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>p2.context.repos</tt></td><td>Define context repositories. See <a href="pde_p2_reusingmetadata.htm">reusing metadata</a>.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>repoBaseLocation</tt></td><td>A folder containing repositories to transform using <tt><a href="../../org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_repositorytasks.htm#p2_repo2runnable"><p2.repo2runnable></a></tt>. See also <a href="pde_p2_reusingmetadata.htm">reusing metadata</a>.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>transformedRepoLocation</tt></td><td>The folder containing the output of <tt><a href="../../org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/p2_repositorytasks.htm#p2_repo2runnable"><p2.repo2runnable></a></tt>. See also <a href="pde_p2_reusingmetadata.htm">reusing metadata</a>.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>p2.category.site</tt></td><td>A URL to a site.xml file used to define categories.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>p2.category.definition</tt></td><td>A URL to a category.xml file used to define categories.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>p2.category.prefix</tt></td><td>Define a prefix to ensure unique ids for category IUs generated from site/category files that don't use unique names.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td><tt>skipMirroring</tt></td><td>Skip the mirroring step, no final archive is created. Build results are found in <tt>${p2.build.repo}</tt>.</td></tr> |
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