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

On 27. 5. 2015, at 13:11, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: On 27 May 2015, at 10:51, Martin Malina wrote: >> On 26. 5. 2015, at 20:31, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse(a)redhat.com&gt; 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 ?

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