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* the work is done on Prometheus, using some sort of cron job | * the work is done on Prometheus, using some sort of cron job | ||
* the [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/tools/update-packaging/unwrap_full_update.sh unwrap_full_update.sh] script is used to unpackage two complete MARs. Next the [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/tools/update-packaging/make_incremental_update.sh make_incremental_update.sh] script is run against the two resulting directories. (m)bsdiff takes a binary diff of the two directories and the resulting patches are MAR'ed to create the final partial MAR file. | |||
* it pushes partial updates to the FTP server (to the from path of any from-->to update), and presumably a partial snippet to AUS | * it pushes partial updates to the FTP server (to the from path of any from-->to update), and presumably a partial snippet to AUS | ||
* Chase Phillips wrote the code; Paul Reed (preed) is a current build engineer who knows how to drive it | * Chase Phillips wrote the code; Paul Reed (preed) is a current build engineer who knows how to drive it | ||