Build Oomph installer using old or custom equinox launcher/SWT bits

[iloveeclipse]

Hi,
we are facing issues supporting Eclipse 4.35 based Oomph installer on RHEL7 because of native launcher & SWT bits not compatible anymore with old RHEL GLIBC library.

So I want to build Oomph installer that either uses older launcher/SWT versions or our re-built versions (identical to master except native parts compiled on RHEL7).

What I have:

• p2 repository containing (our) 4.35 SDK build that works fine on RHEL7.

What I need:

• an idea how to make Oompf use that p2 repository during the build
• or an idea how to force Oompf build use older equinox/SWT
• or an idea how to use old Oomph installer to install custom 4.35 build.

[merks]

Is it possible to simply reuse an older installer version? E.g.,

https://download.eclipse.org/justj/?file=oomph/drops/release/1.34.0/products

The build uses the following so changing the URLs there should do the trick:

https://github.com/eclipse-oomph/oomph/blob/master/releng/org.eclipse.oomph.parent/tp/org.eclipse.oomph.tp.target

Using an Oomph Configuration it's possible to automatically augment the product/project catalogs and to specify what exactly you want installed. I've used this quite a lot for custom project, not so much for custom products.

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Oomph_Authoring#Automation_and_Specialization_with_Configurations

I probably need to understand your needs better in order to help you better...

[iloveeclipse]

The build uses the following so changing the URLs there should do the trick:
https://github.com/eclipse-oomph/oomph/blob/master/releng/org.eclipse.oomph.parent/tp/org.eclipse.oomph.tp.target

I probably need to understand your needs better in order to help you better...

Your hint did it already. I've replaced <repository location="https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.35-I-builds"/> line with our SDK repository URL and the build went through, I see the installer uses right equinox launcher / SWT.

Going now to update setups etc...

[merks]

Very good. I'm glad to be of help!

[iloveeclipse]

Once again: thanks. Tested now on RHEL7, installer works fine because it uses "our" native bits.

[merks]

I'm super glad to hear that! 😀

[iloveeclipse]

I will try. We used to build everything because usually we need to fix everything anyway, so I've not considered to try older Oomph yet.