Official list of update sites?

[brianwilloughby]

I just broke my KDS installation by applying an Eclipse update. I see that others have had similar problems.

Is there an official list of the update sources that should be enabled in the Help->Install New Software dialog?

I'd like to remove all non-official sources so that I don't forget months down the road and apply an incompatible update.

In other words, under Preferences, Install/Update->Available Software Site allows users to disable certain sources of updates. I'd like to hear the KDS developers' official stance on what should be included in the list of sites.

For example, should Luna even be enabled for KDS users? What about GNU ARM cross-development tools? The former seems risky, the latter is probably necessary.

Thanks.

[BlackNight · Accepted solution]

Hi Brian,

it is very unfurtunate that this open source plugin (GNU ARM Eclipse) for some reasons breaks the Segger J-Link debugging functionality. So I appologize for that.

KDS is based on many open source projects, and yes, sometimes things unfortunately are breaking.

I have to say that in the past the GNU ARM  Eclipse plugins were outstanding and rock solid.

As for the list of update sites: each plugin can add its own update sites, the ones provided by Freescale are:

     Freescale KDS Update Site - http://freescale.com/lgfiles/updates/Eclipse/KDS

and the local one from the Kinetis SDK:

     KDS v1.2 Update - jar:file:/C:/Freescale/KSDK_1.2.0/tools/eclipse_update/KSDK_1.2.0_Eclipse_Update.zip!/

So the two above are the 'official' ones, where Freescale extensions and plugins are provided.

Beside of that, other plugins in KDS provide their update sites, including the following:

P&E provides this update site:

     PEMicro - http://www.pemicro.com/eclipse/updates

From Eclipse.org, there are the following update sites:

     Luna - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/luna

And the GNU ARM Eclipse one (GNU and GDB intergration):

     GNU ARM Eclipse Plug-ins - http://gnuarmeclipse.sourceforge.net/updates

I have not had issues in the past to update using these update sites (including others I use in my Eclipse installation). But as always there could be something going bad, I usually make a copy of my Eclipse/installation folder before making an update. Just in case...

I appologize again for the issue, and hope this helps,

Erich