Well... I'm not sure if I'm following all the problems, so excuse me
if I misunderstood something, but shouldn't we end up with the eclipse
folder being owned by the user? For example, I installed eclipse 3.5
RC4 a few days ago and the permissions are as follows:
sunrise:mpvwonder ricardo$ ls -l /Developer/Applications/eclipse-3.5-RC4
total 312
drwxr-xr-x 3 ricardo ricardo 102 Jun 5 17:42 Eclipse.app
-rw-r--r-- 1 ricardo ricardo 123606 Jun 11 08:43 artifacts.xml
drwxr-xr-x 11 ricardo ricardo 374 Jun 11 08:42 configuration
drwxr-xr-x 2 ricardo ricardo 68 Jun 5 17:42 dropins
lrwxr-xr-x 1 ricardo ricardo 34 Jun 11 08:39 eclipse ->
Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse
-rw-r--r-- 1 ricardo ricardo 16536 Feb 25 2005 epl-v10.html
drwxr-xr-x 21 ricardo ricardo 714 Jun 11 08:43 features
-rw-r--r-- 1 ricardo ricardo 6506 Mar 17 2005 notice.html
drwxr-xr-x 5 ricardo ricardo 170 Jun 11 08:42 p2
drwxr-xr-x 416 ricardo ricardo 14144 Jun 11 08:43 plugins
drwxr-xr-x 3 ricardo ricardo 102 Jun 5 17:42 readme
I end up with these permissions because after I download eclipse I end
up with an eclipse folder in my Downloads folder and I simply copy
that into /Developer/Applications. And so it ends up with 'ricardo'
being the owner. And I have not had problems.
So I was thinking the installer should do the same, i.e. make sure the
user owns everything in there.
:-)
On Jun 19, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
> soooo....what should we do here (at least for the binary instaler)?
> Anyone?
> Bueller?
>
> We'd like to be careful about giving too many options, or doing to
> much on a per-user basis...I suppose we could add a simple app/
> script to change permissions, but it seems like more of an eclipse
> thing...not sure if its wise to fight it.
>
> -j
>
> On Jun 19, 2009, at 8:12 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>
>> 3.5 won't load them either, but with ZERO debug information. It
>> shows that it knows they're there, but they just aren't activated.
>> WTF.
>>
>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>
>>> verified btw ... no idea why it's failing now. yay for osgi.
>>>
>>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Rudolf B. Blažek wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Q, forgive me, if my reply is too long:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here is what fails:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Install Eclipse 3.4.2 into e.g. /Developer/Applications/eclipse
>>>> 2) Change the ownership of the install folder to root:admin
>>>> chown -R root:admin /Developer/Applications/eclipse
>>>> 3) Start Eclipse as a non-admin user
>>>> At this point Eclipse works OK. It will use ~/.eclipse/ for user-
>>>> based config files
>>>> 4) Install WOLips using the Software Manager in Eclipse
>>>> Eclipse will fail to start when restarted at the end of the
>>>> installation of WOLips
>>>>
>>>> Here is what works:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Install Eclipse 3.4.2 into e.g. /Developer/Applications/eclipse
>>>> 2) Change the ownership of the install folder to your account
>>>> (non-admin joeuser)
>>>> chown -R joeuser:joeuser /Developer/Applications/eclipse
>>>> 3) Start Eclipse as joeuser
>>>> 4) Install WOLips using the Software Manager in Eclipse
>>>> At this point Eclipse works OK.
>>>> It will NEVER use ~/.eclipse/ for user-based config files.
>>>> The folder ~/.eclipse/ is not even created.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for trying to reproduce this. I appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Rudy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Q wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 19/06/2009, at 4:32 PM, Rudolf B. Blažek wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> That is the point --- it does NOT work with 3.4.2
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok, just verifying that when 3.4.2 is installed manually (as
>>>>> opposed to using the AIO installer) it still fails.
>>>>>
>>>>> I will try to reproduce the problem when I get a chance.
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Q wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 19/06/2009, at 2:59 PM, Rudolf B. Blažek wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> B) If several users need to use Eclipse with WOLips, use
>>>>>>>> Eclipse 3.4.1
>>>>>>>> --- Install Eclipse 3.4.1 into e.g. /Developer/Applications/
>>>>>>>> eclipse
>>>>>>>> --- Change the ownership of the install folder to root:admin
>>>>>>>> chown -R root:admin /Developer/Applications/eclipse
>>>>>>>> --- Install WOLips using the Software Manager in Eclipse
>>>>>>>> --- Eclipse 3.4.1 will use the ~/.eclipse folder correctly,
>>>>>>>> AFAIK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does this technique not work with 3.4.2?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Seeya...Q
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Quinton Dolan - qdola..mail.com
>>>>>>> Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (GMT+10)
>>>>>>> Ph: +61 419 729 806
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Seeya...Q
>>>>>
>>>>> Quinton Dolan - qdola..mail.com
>>>>> Gold Coast, QLD, Australia (GMT+10)
>>>>> Ph: +61 419 729 806
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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