This is an officially supported functionality.

On 2011-05-05, at 9:48 AM, Samuel Wu wrote:

> Thanks for the tip, Thomas. It works great. Wonder whether this is a hidden 
> door or working by defect.
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Samuel Wu
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> <graycol.gif>Thomas Hallgren ---05/05/2011 03:15:18 AM---Hi Samuel, The 
> director will perform an update if you use options to both uninstall
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> Hi Samuel,
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> The director will perform an update if you use options to both uninstall and 
> install the same feature, i.e. -u x.y.z -i x.y.z
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> HTH,
> Thomas Hallgren
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> On 2011-05-04 18:20, Samuel Wu wrote:
> Thank you, Sebastien. 
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> Best Regards
> 
> Samuel Wu
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> <graycol.gif>"Angers, Sebastien" ---05/04/2011 12:12:12 PM---Bonjour Samuel,
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> Bonjour Samuel,
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> Interesting; we are trying to do the same thing.
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> You should look/follow Bug 279659; there’s a patch that has been contributed 
> (thanks to Katya Todorova for the contribution!) which is providing an 
> updateIU option to the director application. (I’ve not tested it yet)
> 
> The Bug also contains good discussions on this requirement.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sébastien
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> I have a feature com.abc.main.feaature 3.6.2.01 installed in Eclipse SDK 
> 3.6.2. I'm trying to update it to 3.6.2.02 from the command line with the p2 
> director.
> 
> eclipse.exe -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository 
> file:/D:/temp/eclipse-SDK-3.6.2/eclipse/workspace/Update/ -installIU 
> com.abc.main.feaature.feature.group 
> 
> I got the error message in the configuration directory, saying that Cannot 
> complete the install because of a conflicting dependency. Only one of the 
> feature com.abc.main.feaature can be installed. Is there another application 
> which can update the installed feature?
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Samuel Wu
> IBM Canada, Toronto Lab
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