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How to customize or omit the Built-By manifest header with Tycho?

When using Tycho to build an Eclipse RCP application based on plug-ins, Tycho adds a Built-By header with the value of the logged-in user id in the manifest of every plug-in.

How to configure Tycho to either not add this header, or to set a customized value?

Solution

  • I haven't found a way to omit the Built-By header, but you can change its value:

    <build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.eclipse.tycho</groupId>
      <artifactId>tycho-packaging-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>${tycho-version}</version> 
      <configuration>
        <archive>
          <manifestEntries>
            <Built-By>Anonymous</Built-By>
          </manifestEntries>
        </archive>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

    The resulting manifest contains this header:

    Built-By: Anonymous

    If you specify an empty manifest entry (using <Built-By></Built-By>), an empty header is added to the resulting manifest file.

    Built-By: