I haven't gotten an official statement from our product management but currently it looks like it was accidentally removed. Actually the functionality should still be there but it's just hidden. I'll let you know when I hear more.

Ok, thanks.

It would also be nice to now if the feature is eventually meant to be removed completely (hopefully not)

It's confirmed it was accidentally hidden and we will be releasing soon an app in Marketplace to reenable it. If I understood correctly it is only deprecated in sense that the Liferay.com plugin catalog is replaced by Marketplace. You can still continue to use your own plugin catalogs.

Great news.

Kiitokset

Here's the ticket to watch (and a screenshot). Should be in soon, thanks to Ryan Park (and thanks to you all for the feedback!)

Thanks Miko, James, and Ryan. Will keep watch on the LPS.

Just wondering if the source will also be available. If it will be, will it be in the war file and in github?

Here ya go: https://github.com/liferay/liferay-plugins/tree/master/hooks/private-plugin-installer-hook

And it'll be in the plugin too.

Thanks, just could't wait until the plugin got released from the Marketplace.

Well, considering we are staging LR GA2 for deployment in 2 weeks (there were some bug fixes we needed) and now we can't deploy themes or hooks locally except through the deploy directory, I needed to get something out pretty quick.

We downloaded and built it but got the following error on trying to deploy:

13:38:05,251 INFO [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][AutoDeployDir:182] Processing private-plugin-installer-hook-6.2.0.1.war. This is attempt 9.
13:38:05,252 INFO [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][HookAutoDeployListener:48] Copying hook plugin for /opt/liferay/deploy/private-plugin-installer-hook-6.2.0.1.war
13:38:05,252 INFO [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][BaseDeployer:763] Deploying private-plugin-installer-hook-6.2.0.1.war
13:38:05,252 ERROR [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][AutoDeployDir:210] com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: private-plugin-installer-hook-6.2.0.1.war does not support this version of Liferay
com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: private-plugin-installer-hook-6.2.0.1.war does not support this version of Liferay
at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.autoDeploy(BaseDeployer.java:201)
at com.liferay.portal.deploy.auto.HookAutoDeployListener.deploy(HookAutoDeployListener.java:51)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.processFile(AutoDeployDir.java:193)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployDir.scanDirectory(AutoDeployDir.java:235)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner.run(AutoDeployScanner.java:54)
Caused by: com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployException: private-plugin-installer-hook-6.2.0.1.war does not support this version of Liferay
at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.deployFile(BaseDeployer.java:795)
at com.liferay.portal.tools.deploy.BaseDeployer.autoDeploy(BaseDeployer.java:198)
... 4 more
13:38:05,252 INFO [com.liferay.portal.kernel.deploy.auto.AutoDeployScanner][AutoDeployDir:216] Add private-plugin-installer-hook-6.2.0.1.war to the blacklist

So it is telling us even though we built it with GA2 that it does not support this version of Liferay (as I looked at it again - are we pulling from the wrong branch as it is building as 6.2.0.1??), plus what is the blacklist that it is now on and how will we clear it from there once we figure this out?

Thanks!

Did you use the war I built or did you build it yourself? I'm looking at the one I built and it seems to have correct version 6.1.1.1 but the one you are deploying has 6.2.0.1 which would suggest to me that it was built against 6.2.x and not 6.1.x.

Yup, that's what happened. As soon as I posted the errors I noticed it and went back to my developer.
No, we built it before you posted yours today.
He rebuilt another from the right branch and it worked.
Thanks for the info on the blacklist issue. Looks like we are good to go.

Thanks all!

Yeah, you built the trunk version - that is targeted at 6.2 (which does not exist as a release yet). You need to take the version from the 6.1.x branch - Notice the liferay-plugin-package.properties declares it to be compatible with 6.1.1.

Or just grab the one that Mika posted in the ticket. To clear the blacklist, you can just restart the server.

Update: today or tomorrow.

It's on the marketplace now. Enjoy!