Revert to an earlier p2 profile from the command line
>> Monday, January 24, 2011
Today, we're running builds toward 3.7M5 for the milestone that will be available Friday, January 28. This morning I updated to our latest integration build from the repository. Unfortunately, one of the bundles had a compile error which was serious enough to cause Eclipse to crash on startup.
If you want to revert your installation to a previous version, this is easy to do from the UI. Chris describes this here.
However, if you can't access the Eclipse UI, reverting becomes a bit more complicated. The online help illustrates how to use the p2 director application to revert your install to a previous profile state.
The list of profiles available in your Eclipse install are located in your profile registry. The highlighted profile id below reflects my working installation from last week.
To revert to this profile, I downloaded a new build, extracted it to a directory and ran the following command
C:\N20110122-2000\eclipse\eclipsec.exe -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -repository http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/3.7-I-builds -revert 1295719004390 -destination c:\I20100309-0809\eclipse -profile SDKProfile -bundlepool C:\I20100309-0809 -p2.os win32 -p2.ws win32 -p2.arch x86
Operation completed in 68759 ms.
My install was reverted to the previous profile and I could once again start Eclipse.
4 comments:
This p2 stuffs seems to work really well.
Yes, I heard a rumour that the p2 committers are top notch.
Hi ! I found this page today and I'm glad I did because the revert operation is not that much documented.
Just a little hint, in your article you wrote -p.arch x86 for the command, and it's -p2.arch
Hi Vincent, I've corrected the typo, glad you found the article useful.
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