Eclipse keeps crunching while "updating rpm packages proposal list"

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einpoklum picture einpoklum · Jul 28, 2013 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I've recently installed Eclipse Kepler CDT on a Win7 64 machine. It runs fine (well, sort of), but - it keeps crunching, with the status bar saying

Updating RPM packages proposal list

Why is this happening and how can I make it stop?

Answer

Ignitor picture Ignitor · Aug 7, 2013

It's a bug in the "Linux Tools" plugin. It seems that the plugin is unable to create the file specified at

Window -> Preferences -> Specfile Editor -> RPM Completions -> Path to packages list file

or

Window -> Preferences -> RPM -> Specfile Editor -> RPM Completions -> Path to packages list file

and therefore keeps trying to create it.

To fix this problem, just create an empty file at that location & name, or create a new empty file at a different location & name and specify it as the "Path to packages list file".

Note: You cannot create the default file (.pkglist) using Windows explorer since it won't let you create a file whose name starts with a dot. So open a console (command prompt) window and run this command:

echo. > path\to\file\.pkglist

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