Releases/Firefox 3.6rc1/BuildNotes

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Build Engineers

Build tag-team:

• NZDT: nthomas
• EST: coop

Signed-off Revision(s)

Build 1: 0f70d1d535dc

Tags

On mozilla-central:

Build #	Tag	Changeset
1	GECKO192_20100105_RELBRANCH	0f70d1d535dc
	FIREFOX_3_6rc1_BUILD1 FIREFOX_3_6rc1_RELEASE	672df9e9c441

Build data

Build 1:

Platform	Build ID	Build machine
Win32	20100105212446	win32-slave18
Mac	20100105194006	moz2-darwin9-slave14
Linux	20100105194116	moz2-linux-slave16
WinCE	20100105194724	win32-slave24

Notes

Using production-master.b.m.o.

Build 1

• Clean up previous releases build dirs, just for the slaves we used for 3.6b4 build1. Used cssh for linux/mac, RDP as Administrator on win32.
  • Linux: slave01,02,05-10,12,16,18,24,26; rm -rf /builds/slave/{tag,source,linux_build,linux_repack,updates,linux_update_verify,final_verification}/*
  • Mac: slave02,05,06,07,09,10,14; xserve07,09; rm -rf /builds/slave/{macosx_build,macosx_repack,l10n_verification, macosx_update_verify}/*
  • Win32: win32-slave01,02,05,06,07,08,09,10,13,39; rm -rf /e/builds/moz2_slave/{win32_build,win32_repack,win32_update_verify,wince_build}/*
• one-off: switched update channel to release
• prepared automation config patch - minus changeset
• landed automation config
• reconfig'd master
• Tagged build/{buildbot-configs,buildbotcustom,tools} with FIREFOX_3_6rc1_RELEASE
• Closed the mozilla-1.9.2 tree
• Sendchange:

buildbot sendchange --username=nthomas --master=localhost:9010 --branch=releases/mozilla-1.9.2 -m "Firefox 3.6rc1build1" go!

Tag

• slave: moz2-linux-slave02
• bump mozilla-1.9.2 to 3.6pre with patch
• reopen mozilla-1.9.2
• no problems

Source

• slave: moz2-linux-slave23
• no problems

Build/Repack

• slaves
• Manual verification that all l10n builds are present:

# stage
cd /home/ftp/pub/firefox/nightly/3.6b4-candidates/build1
# each should be 74 = en-US + 73 locales, for desktop platforms
for p in linux-i686 mac unsigned/win32; do
 echo `ls $p | grep -v xpi | wc -l` $p
done

• Removed en-US.xpi from the 3.6rc1-candidates/build1/ directory on stage
• No problems

Sign

• instructions
• No problems

L10N Verify

• No problems

Generate updates & push betatest snippets

• No problems

Update Verify

• Linux: failed
  • no complete update found for https://aus2.mozilla.org/update/1/Firefox/3.6b5/20091204132459/Linux_x86-gcc3/eo/betatest/update.xml?force=1
  • seems spurious, it's available when I check by hand
• Mac: No problems
• Win32: failed

PREPARE PATCH AccessibleMarshal.dll
CRC check failed
LoadSourceFile failed
failed: 4
calling QuitProgressUI
FAIL: update status was not succeeded: failed: 4
FAIL: check_updates returned failure for WINNT_x86-msvc downloads/Firefox Setup 3.6 Beta 5.exe vs. downloads/Firefox Setup 3.6 RC 1.exe: 1

• • this is expected due to a rebasing change that happened in 3.6b5. See the Update Verify notes for 3.6b5 for details.
  • there are about 600K users on 3.6b5 Win, so in order to prevent the unnecessary downloading of partials, we made the snippets for partials point to the complete updates. Here's the script I used to pull the switch (~/coop/completes_as_partials.bash), run from /opt/aus2/incoming/3/Firefox/3.6b5/WINNT_x86-msvc/20091204143806 on aus2-staging:

#!/bin/bash
for i in `find . -name complete.txt -print`; do
  DIR=`dirname ${i}`
  # only make a new partial when we have an existing partial
  if [ -f ${DIR}/partial.txt ]; then
    mv ${DIR}/partial.txt ${DIR}/partial.txt.orig
    cp ${i} ${DIR}/partial.txt
    perl -i.old -pe 's/type=complete/type=partial/' ${DIR}/partial.txt 
  fi
done

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