[jbosstools-dev] Who would I ping for new sysprop to all runtime installer jars?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 27 May 2015, at 10:51, Martin Malina wrote:

>> On 26. 5. 2015, at 20:31, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 26 May 2015, at 18:39, Rob Stryker wrote:
>>
>>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-19852
>>>
>>> When using dl-runtimes to install DV or FSW, it runs the installer
>>> jar.
>>> The installer jar does not respect the installation path the user 
>>> set
>>> in
>>> the dl-runtimes wizard. It can't, obviously, bc we never transmit it
>>> to
>>> the installer at all.
>>>
>>> It'd be great if we could agree on some sysprop we can set when
>>> running
>>> java -jar dv-6.1-installer.jar such that the installer checks it for 
>>> a
>>> default installation folder.
>>>
>>> Any ideas who I would ping over getting something like that
>>> implemented
>>> on the runtimes side?
>>
>> I don't think you'll ever be able to find a global agreement on it.
>>
>> But
>>
>> A) start by opening feature request against the installer - in this 
>> case
>> TEIID or Data Virtualisation product.
>>
>> B) if the installer is a izpack based installer there might be ways 
>> to
>> do it already:
>> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/IZPACK/Unattended+Installations
>> Try with java -DINSTALL_PATH=/opt/myplace -jar myinstaller.jar  to
>> see if that works ?
>>
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't work.
>
> For JBDS installer jar, running
> java -jar installer.jar -options-template myinstaller.properties
> generates the property file, but it's empty.
>
> For DV, running the same command, the resulting property file includes 
> "INSTALL_PATH=" which should indicate that you can set this property 
> as Max suggested.
>
> But running the installer with
> java -DINSTALL_PATH=/Users/rasp/jbossqa/runtimes/jboss-eap-6.3.0 -jar 
> jboss-dv-installer-6.1.0.redhat-3.jar
> it will still offer this as the default path:
> /Users/rasp/DV-6.1.0/jboss-eap-6.3
>
> So no luck here.

sounds like a bug we should fix on both sides ;)

care to open them ?

/max
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