Firefox 3.0b5:BuildNotes

Bugs

Tracking bug for Firefox 3.0beta5 bug 424242

(yes, yes, the answer to the ultimate question!)

Tags

Module	Tag	Pull date
cvsroot/mozilla
l10n/l10n

Build data

Type	Build ID	SHA1	Push date	Build machine
[Windows installer]
[Mac compressed]
[Linux compressed]

Notes

RC1

Bootstrap tag: RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M8

Setup before starting:

• Profile Guided Optimisation
  • need at least rev1.383 of tinderbox/build-seamonkey-util.pm when tagging tinderbox
  • for the Windows slave
    • bring over the mk_add_options PROFILE_GEN_SCRIPT... line from the nightly mozconfig to the release one, and the tweaks to CFLAGS & CXXFLAGS
    • Also pick up the new jemalloc line and removal of WIN32_REDIST_DIR
    • bring over $ProfiledBuild = 1; from nightly tinder-config.pl to release one
    • Bump fx-win32-1.9-slave2 up to 2GB of RAM, to match nightly VM
• used existing version bump bug to attached diff for bootstrap.cfg and master.cfg
  • make sure /builds/buildbot/trunk-automation-master/bootstrap.cfg is updated
  • restarted master
• compare nightly and release mozconfig/tinder-config.pl files, merge any desired changes
• On fx-mac-1.9-slave2, fx-win32-1.9-slave2, fx-linux-1.9-slave2
  • REMEMBER to use VNC when restarting mac slave
  • verify that both mac and linux have "xhost +" since last reboot
  • update tinderbox to RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M7_2
    • FIXME update should be automatic - bug 397554
    • cd /builds/tinderbox/mozilla/tools/tinderbox
    • cvs up -r RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M7_2
  • remove the contents of /builds/verify/*
    • FIXME should be automatically backed up or removed - bug 413178
  • restart buildbot
• On production-1.9-master
  • remove the contents of /builds/updates/
  • remove private and public areas
    • rm -rf /data/cltbld/firefox-*
      • FIXME should not be needed - bug 415970
    • rm -rf /builds/tags/* - did not do this, plenty of space
      • FIXME should not be needed - bug 415970
    • in /home/ftp/pub/firefox/nightly/, remove all except the 3.x-candidates directory for the previous release
      • rm -rf /home/ftp/pub/firefox/nightly/2007*
      • FIXME should not be needed - bug 415970
• af was not tagged, so had to checkout a tagged locale so CVS would cache it
  • cvs co -r FIREFOX_3_0b4_RELEASE l10n/de

• kick off buildbot (run as cltbld):

buildbot sendchange --username=joduinn --master=localhost:9989 -m "Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 RC1" release

Updates to Test Channel

• Make sure the new patcher config changes are used. patcherToolsRev should be UPDATE_PACKAGING_R2. snippets should have prettyVersion (3 Beta 5) as their appv. Patcher-created directory structure should use unpretty version (3.0b5).

Updates to Beta Channel

In case you need to cancel/abort updates, the quickest way to do this is [1]

• While waiting for formal "go", backup existing beta channel

 # login to aus2-staging
 $ sudo su - cltbld
 # make sure using latest version of scripts
 $ cvs get -d bin mozilla/tools/release/bin/ 
   cvs checkout: Updating bin
 $ cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging
 # note the required parameter must match what will be used with pushsnip below. 
 $ ~/bin/backupsnip 20080308-Firefox-3.0b4

• Once QA and Website gives formal "go" to put updates on beta channel

 # login to aus2-staging
 $ sudo su - cltbld
 # make sure using latest version of scripts
 $ cvs get -d bin mozilla/tools/release/bin/ 
   cvs checkout: Updating bin
 $ cd /opt/aus2/snippets/staging
 $ ~/bin/pushsnip 20080308-Firefox-3.0b4