Software Update:GeneratingSnippetsAndPartialsForReleases

For releases of Firefox and Thunderbird, the Build & Release team at Mozilla Corp uses a program called patcher2. This document describes the basics of how to use it.

Define variables

PRODUCT=firefox
VERSION=2.0.0.7

Getting the code

# create a working dir
mkdir $PRODUCT-$VERSION-updates/
cd $PRODUCT-$VERSION-updates/

export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs-mirror.mozilla.org

# pull patcher2 and the MozBuild support library
cvs co -d patcher mozilla/tools/patcher
cd patcher
cvs co -d MozBuild mozilla/tools/release/MozBuild

Make updates

# build tools
./patcher2.pl --build-tools --app=${PRODUCT} \
  --config=../config/moz180-branch-patcher2.cfg 2>&1 | tee  ${PRODUCT}_build-tools.log
# download complete MARs
./patcher2.pl --download --app=${PRODUCT} \
 --config=../config/moz180-branch-patcher2.cfg 2>&1 | tee  ${PRODUCT}-download.log
# Create partial patches and snippets
./patcher2.pl --create-patches --app=${PRODUCT} \
 --config=../config/moz180-branch-patcher2.cfg 2>&1 | tee ${PRODUCT}-create-patches.log