The ability to explicitly deal with multiple bundle pool through a regular 
provisioning operation is not implemented - which is why this bug is still open.
At this point p2 deal with one bundlepool which can be located anywhere and 
shared by multiple installs. By default the eclipse install folder is a bundle 
pool and it is the only case where roaming is supported.

The mechanism that backs p2.cache.extensions property only supports read only 
repos (a bundle pool is another name for a local repository). This code has 
been added to support the case of the dropins and other legacy setups of 
extension locations where it was possible to store plugins in random folders by 
unzipping them in place.

For p2 to write into different pools, the existing code would have to be 
changed, or a new type of repository allowing for this kind of thing to happen 
would be added. For example you could imagine having a new type of repo that 
would know how to write to specific sub repos and know how to route the bundles 
into the appropriate place.

Now to step back a bit, what are you trying to achieve?
Where would you expect the information on where to store the bundle to come 
from?

PaScaL


On 2011-11-24, at 9:37 AM, Kapukaranov, Borislav wrote:

> Hey folks,
>  
> I recently found bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=202447 
> covering support for multiple bundle pools.
> While that’s quite exciting I couldn’t find a way or guide how to use it 
> during provisioning.
> The director’s “-bundlepool” argument is respected only at profile creation 
> as the documentation suggests.
>  
> Also I was curious how this behaves with roaming profiles. On one hand the 
> bug hints this could be used in Eclipse(a roaming installation), but on the 
> other the “-roaming” documentation says that this argument only makes sense 
> when the pool and the destination locations match.
>  
> I see I can specify the “org.eclipse.equinox.p2.cache.extensions“ during 
> initial provisioning of a product, using the profileProperties.
> So far so good, but on subsequent provisioning operations on this profile how 
> do I specify in which pool I want my plugins to go?
>  
> Thanks,
> Bobby
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