Bug#636136: update system is not working

[Davide Prina]

Tzafrir Cohen write:

> Unable to read repository at http://download.eclipse.org/birt/update-site/3.7-interim/content.xml.
> Host name may not be null

> The URLs I have added do not end with '/content.xml' , and return some
> XML file. The URLs mentioned there return 404.

I have the same problem.
I have found that this message type is misleading:

from https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=305936
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p2 asks for a number of URL's in a specific order. That includes content.xml,
content.jar, compositeContent.xml, compositeContent.jar, and site.xml. When
none of them is found, it will print the given message and give up.

The message in itself is misleading. It should say something like "Unable to
find content meta-data at <parent URL>" or something similar.
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I have see that for solving this problem someone have do one of the following:
* remove all eclipse and reinstall all (but sometime update/install
work only the first time)
* remove all repository for update/install, close eclipse and than add...

I have tried some workaround, but no one work for me.

I have read that, probably, this bug will not be solved in eclipse 3.7

Ciao
Davide