Publish content.xml

[jochenberger]

Unfortunately, the repository for the 5.6.0 release only contains a content.xml.xz (e.g. in https://groovy.jfrog.io/ui/native/plugins-release/org/codehaus/groovy/groovy-eclipse-integration/5.6.0/e4.34/). Would it be possible to publish a content.xml/content.jar as well?
The context is diffplug/spotless#2381

[eric-milles]

If this line is removed, the content.jar that is generated will be retained in the update repository:

groovy-eclipse/Site-org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse/pom.xml

Line 69 in 00649e1

<keepNonXzIndexFiles>false</keepNonXzIndexFiles>

[jochenberger]

Thanks for investigating. Is this something we can do for the previous release or only for upcoming ones?
Want me to create a PR?

[eric-milles]

I was waiting on equodev/equo-ide#180 to see if support was going to come from the other side.

For the existing release sites, the best I can do is unzip the .gz and put whatever is in there in the root directory.

For new releases, dropping that setting will keep the artifacts.jar and content.jar (IIRC) around. I can make that change at the time of the release.

[eric-milles]

The p2.index file specifies which files exist and what order to try them within a p2 repository (eclipse update site):

artifact.repository.factory.order=artifacts.xml.xz,\!
metadata.repository.factory.order=content.xml.xz,\!
version=1

[jochenberger]

Then equo-ide will probably have to read that.