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

[Martin Malina]

> On 27. 5. 2015, at 13:11, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

OK, I created these:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-3446 for JBDS (although we're not gonna install JBDS from within JBDS, it may still be a good thing to have there)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225450 for JBoss DV
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225457 for JBoss FSW

-Martin

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