I am trying to deploy a version of Eclipse and would like control over the default repository list. See my earlier question.
In my other question, I learned that this is stored in the user's home directory under ".eclipse\org.eclipse.platform_3.7.0_525061626\p2\org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine\profileRegistry\epp.package.cpp.profile\.data\.settings\org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository.prefs".
I would rather not deploy this file to a user specific location because there might already be one from another Eclipse installation and there could be more than one user account.
Is there any way that I can avoid the user profile?
I did find an equivelent file under the main Eclipse folder "eclipse\p2\org.eclipse.equinox.p2.engine\profileRegistry\epp.package.cpp.profile\.data\.settings\org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository.prefs" but changing this didn't make any difference.
Thanks, Alan
The way that I ended up doing this was to create a lightweight plugin that starts when Eclipse loads. This then programatically adds the update site as detailed here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7384954/101642