Releases/Firefox 17.0b1/BuildNotes

• Ship the l10n milestone ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Set reserved_slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Check to make sure you have all of the different types of slaves that you need ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Start the automation ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Sign Android builds ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Reset reserved_slaves and unlock slaves ^{DESKTOP MOBILE RELEASE BETA ESR}
• Push to mirrors ^{DESKTOP RELEASE}
• Publish Fennec ^{MOBILE RELEASE BETA}
• Run pushsnip ^{DESKTOP RELEASE BETA ESR}

Bugs hit

• bug 799599 - don't use mock slaves for releases until bug 798361 is done
• bug 799806 - compile failures in libmar for repacks
• bug 799347 - Investigate packet loss within SCL3
• bug 799954 - linux repacks failed in firefox 17.0b1
• bug 799988 - Install android-sdk-r16 RPM to IX machines

Notes

• Tracking bug: bug 796970
• Release engineer: jhopkins
• Buildbot master: bm13

Build 1

Starting the automation

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u jhopkins \
    -V 17.0b1 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 \
    --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py \
    --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --products firefox,fennec  \
    --dryrun localhost:9001

Fix repacks

First we hit bug 799806. (jhopkins, please flesh out this part.)

After that, Windows and Mac repacks worked fine but Linux hit:

===
=== If you get failures below, please file a bug describing the error
=== and your environment (compiler and linker versions), and use
=== --disable-elf-hack until this is fixed.
===
# Fail if the library doesn't have INIT_ARRAY .dynamic info
readelf -d test-array.so | grep '(INIT_ARRAY)'
 0x00000019 (INIT_ARRAY)                 0x54a8
/builds/slave/rel-m-beta-lnx-rpk-2/mozilla-beta/obj-l10n/build/unix/elfhack/elfhack -b -f test-array.so
/builds/slave/rel-m-beta-lnx-rpk-2/mozilla-beta/obj-l10n/build/unix/elfhack/elfhack: /tools/gcc-4.3.3/installed/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14' not found (required by /builds/slave/rel-m-beta-lnx-rpk-2/mozilla-beta/obj-l10n/build/unix/elfhack/elfhack)
make[4]: *** [test-array.so] Error 1

Catlee suggested that adding --enable-stdcxx-compat to the mozconfig would fix it. I (bhearsum) tested this by hand to verify, and then landed a fix in buildbot-configs: https://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/e0994e97bf3a. After retagging and testing one repack chunk, I triggered the rest.

Respin declared for the same issue as the 16.0 chemspill

Build 2

Starting the automation

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u catlee \
    -V 17.0b1 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 2 \
    --release-config release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py \
    --products firefox \
    --dryrun localhost:9001

Fennec beta tagging delayed due to SCL3 network issues. See bug 799347. Once the workaround was done:

cd /builds/buildbot/build1/master
source ../bin/activate
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u nthomas \
    -V 17.0b1 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 2 \
    --release-config release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py \
    --products fennec \
    --dryrun localhost:9001

which was clean, ran without the --dryrun.

Sign Android builds

Ran the following as cltsign@signing1:

cd ~/signing-work/mozharness
hg pull -u && hg up -C
cd ..
python2.6 mozharness/scripts/sign_android.py --config-file signing/android_mozilla-beta.py