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Equinox p2 Metadata Generator/Example

If you need to (re)generate metadata for an existing udpate site, here's how:

cd /tmp/update-site-unpacked; rm -fr artifacts.jar content.jar; \
~/eclipse/eclipse -vm /opt/jdk1.5.0/bin/java -workspace /tmp/workspace \
  -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.generator.EclipseGenerator \
  -updateSite /tmp/update-site-unpacked/ \
  -source /tmp/update-site-unpacked/ \
  -site file:/tmp/update-site-unpacked/site.xml \
  -features /tmp/update-site-unpacked/features/ \
  -bundles /tmp/update-site-unpacked/bundles/ \
  -metadataRepository file:/tmp/update-site-unpacked/ \
  -artifactRepository file:/tmp/update-site-unpacked/ \
  -metadataRepositoryName "My Update Site" \
  -artifactRepositoryName "My Artifacts" \
  -noDefaultIUs -compress -reusePack200Files; rm -fr /tmp/workspace

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