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	The downside is that if we need to install a new good version of the service, it's going to be manual work for RelEng. Since the only thing that the known good service is expected to do is to be able to replace itself with the version of the service coming from the binary, I don't expect this problem happening frequently in practice.		The downside is that if we need to install a new good version of the service, it's going to be manual work for RelEng. Since the only thing that the known good service is expected to do is to be able to replace itself with the version of the service coming from the binary, I don't expect this problem happening frequently in practice.

			In order to automate the process of delivering new good known versions of the service, we're planning to make the installation script download the binary from a known location within the Mozilla build network. We will also download an installation script to enable us to customize the way that the installation works if we need to.