Releases/Firefox 4.0b9/BuildNotes

Notes About Releasing

Please update the Release:Primer for future releases (bug fixes, changes to automation) as needed

Build Engineers

rail, catlee - bug 621199

Signed-off Revision(s)

• Build 1: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/badef0f336d2

L10N changesets

• wget -O l10n-changesets_mozilla-2.0 https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/l10n-changesets?ms=fx4.0b9

• Didn't hit "ship it" from FF4 beta9 page as there were still outstanding approvals. Hit "Ship it" later after comparing l10n-changesets and l10n-changesets_mozilla-2.0.

Tags

Build #	Tag	Changeset
1	GECKO20b9_2011011018_RELBRANCH	859a97109032
	FIREFOX_4_0b9_RELEASE / FIREFOX_4_0b9_BUILD1	cd72d71311c4

Build data

Build #	Type	Build ID	Build machine	Time to build
1	Linux [compressed .tar.bz2]	20110110191600	mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave10	1 hrs, 9 secs
	Linux64 [compressed .tar.bz2]	20110110192031	moz2-linux64-slave03	1 hrs, 36 mins, 4 secs
	Macosx64 [.dmg]	20110110191913	moz2-darwin10-slave19	4 hrs, 23 mins, 19 secs
	Win32 [.exe/.zip]	20110110191547	mw32-ix-slave06	2 hrs, 51 mins, 26 secs

Bugs hit

• bug 624704 'hg out' died in tagging, wasn't retried. Manually pushed, stubbed out tag factory, and restarted automation.
• 'signedPlatforms' required in release_config.py download_builds.py. Worked around by simple patch to default to ('win32',)
• release clobberer didn't work
• mail isn't sent to r-d for tagging start/completion
• pm01 couldn't send mail sometimes due to startTLS issue
• autosign didn't upload at the end as I (catlee) expected it would

Build 1

Setup

Set reserved_slaves_pm01 to 4

Landed automation configs: http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/e6acb5b5017b

Tagged buildbotcustom http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbotcustom/rev/3a11a14d586e

Tagged build tools http://hg.mozilla.org/build/tools/rev/058ef321faad

Updated pm01 to FIREFOX_4_0b9_RELEASE

Interrupted here due to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624514

Landed new automation configs with updated revision http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/6d8974239200

Updated pm01 again.

Set clobbers on all pm01 releases.

Kicked off automation with:

 PYTHONPATH=/builds/buildbot/builder_master1:/builds/buildbot/builder_master1/tools/lib/python python /builds/buildbot/builder_master1/tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u catlee -V 4.0b9 --branch mozilla-central --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-2.0.py --dryrun localhost:9010
 PYTHONPATH=/builds/buildbot/builder_master1:/builds/buildbot/builder_master1/tools/lib/python python /builds/buildbot/builder_master1/tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u catlee -V 4.0b9 --branch mozilla-central --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-2.0.py localhost:9010

Created mac directories and mac64 symlinks:

 # ffxbld@surf
 cd /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly
 mkdir -p 4.0b9-candidates/build1/mac
 cd 4.0b9-candidates/build1
 ln -s mac mac64
 cd ..
 mkdir -p update/mac
 cd update
 ln -s mac mac64

Tried to start auto signing, but fails out with missing 'signedPlatforms' key. Patched references to releaseConfig['signedPlatforms'] with releaseConfig.get('signedPlatforms', ('win32',)) and restarted.

Tag

tagging died on 'ta' locale:

command: START
command: arg0: hg
command: args: ['-q', 'out', '--template', '{node}\n', '-e', 'ssh -l ffxbld -i ~cltbld/.ssh/ffxbld_dsa', '-r', '29ada2d45589', '-b', 'default', 'ssh://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/ta']
command: cwd: ta
command: output:
abort: no suitable response from remote hg!
command: END

fixed up manually by logging onto the slave,

cd /builds/slave/rel-cen-tag/build/ta
hg push -e 'ssh -i ~/.ssh/ffxbld_dsa' --new-branch ssh://ffxbld@hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/ta

set skip_tag = True in release config, pushed, tagged, and re-ran release sanity.

Source

Died on linux-ix-slave13.build.mozilla.org because it wasn't clobbered properly.

Manually clobbered, and triggered rebuild.

2nd build worked fine.

Build/Repack

• linux - no problems
• linux64 - no problems
• macosx64 - no problems
• win32 - no problems

Signing

TODO-VERIFY:Autosign method used this time, see Build:CombinedSigning.

L10N Verify

Red due to the nature of betas, where we have new locales, a lot of string changes for the already released locales.