May be you should make this a blog post, so that others can easily refer this. Good post!!
--Pradeep On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Dileepa Jayakody <dile...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > *importFeatureDef* instruction in carbon-p2-plugin is used to define > dependencies to external features when developing a feature. > We come across conflicts in feature installations when features have > tight-dependencies to external features as* includedFeatures*. > includedFeatureDef should be used to include sub-features (eg:to include > server and ui features in the aggregate feature) and not to include other > external features. > Included features are considered parts of the nesting feature and they are > not allowed to be updated by P2. > > One example is :* org.wso2.carbon.service.mgt.server.feature*. It has > included several external features as part of it, including > org.wso2.carbon.security.mgt.server feature. > So if the user needs to install a newer version of one of the nested > features (eg: org.wso2.carbon.security.mgt.server feature), P2 doesn't > allow it to update parts of a nested feature. > > So as a best practice when developing features; when a feature has a > dependency to an external feature, it should be defined as an > importFeatureDef. > Then the feature installation is enforced by P2 and updates are supported > at the time of installation. > > I have fixed the org.wso2.carbon.service.mgt.server feature: 4.0.5 for > above reason, by importing external features. When importing external > features we should also make sure the importedFeatures are published to the > repository. > > Thanks, > Dileepa > > > -- > Dileepa Jayakody, > Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > > Mobile : +94777-857616 > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@wso2.org > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > -- *Pradeep Fernando* Member, Management Committee - Platform & Cloud Technologies Senior Software Engineer;WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com blog: http://pradeepfernando.blogspot.com m: +94776603662
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