[INFRA-1244] Misleading documentation on tool auto-installers about helpdesk HOT 9 CLOSED

cowwoc:

Another problem is that it's not clear how to configure different installers for different platforms. The help bubble reads "For a platform-independent tool (such as Ant), configuring multiple installers for a single tool makes not much sense, but for a platform dependent tool, multiple installer configurations allow you to run a different set up script depending on the slave environment."

But when I configure JDK installers, there is no obvious way for me to indicate which installer should be used for which platform. Specifically, I wish to avoid the JDK auto-installer from running under OSX because it is currently unsupported and prints a warning message every time.

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oleg_nenashev:

Moved the issue to the INFRA project

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rtyler:

I don't think this is really an INFRA level task. INFRA is for project infrastructure but this seems related to the auto-installer feature of the Jenkins server itself

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rtyler:

Oleg, assigning this to you because I really don't think this has anything to do with INFRA. I think it's more of a wiki/core/docs issue

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oleg_nenashev:

Moved to Update Center. If we want to do something, we firstly need tooling support for the plugin metadata

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danielbeck:

But when I configure JDK installers, there is no obvious way for me to indicate which installer should be used for which platform. Specifically, I wish to avoid the JDK auto-installer from running under OSX because it is currently unsupported and prints a warning message every time.

This is what the label field when selecting tool installers is for. Not sure whether it exists for auto installers (if not, it should, but a separate issue)

If we want to do something, we firstly need tooling support for the plugin metadata

Would be a linked change in the tools crawler and the component implementing the ToolInstallation. Makes no sense to look at this in isolation, especially not as a general issue (rather than specifically on JDKs).

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danielbeck:

The actionable part of this is captured by WEBSITE-193.

The rest is too general; needs specific issues in the components implementing the ToolInstaller / ToolInstallations; the crawler is just an extension of that.

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[Originally related to: WEBSITE-248]

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[Originally related to: WEBSITE-193]

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