Releases/Firefox 2.0.0.16-3.0.1 MU:BuildNotes

Release Engineers

Nick Thomas (major update test)
Ben Hearsum (real snippet generation, null partner updates)

Bugs

bug 442105 - tracking bug
bug 450863 - null partner updates

Generate Major Update Snippets

# ssh cltbld@prometheus-vm.build.mozilla.org
cd /builds/2.0.0.16-major-update/snippets
cvs -d:ext:ffxbld@cvs.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -d patcher mozilla/tools/patcher
cd patcher
cvs -d:ext:ffxbld@cvs.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -d MozBuild mozilla/tools/release/MozBuild
cd ../
cvs -d:ext:ffxbld@cvs.mozilla.org:/cvsroot co -d patcher-configs mozilla/tools/patcher-configs

cd patcher
export CVSROOT=:ext:ffxbld@cvs.mozilla.org:/cvsroot

# build tools
./patcher2.pl --build-tools --app=firefox --tools-rev=UPDATE_PACKAGING_R4 --config=../patcher-configs/moz18-branch-major-update-patcher2.cfg 2>&1 | tee ../firefox_build-tools.log

# download mars
./patcher2.pl --download --app=firefox --config=../patcher-configs/moz18-branch-major-update-patcher2.cfg 2>&1 | tee ../firefox_download.log

# FIXME - patcher needs to see that the MARs that it thinks are partials
#             are there or else it will not attempt to generate patchinfo
cd temp/firefox
ln -s 3.0.1 2.0.0.16-3.0.1

# Create partial patches and snippets
./patcher2.pl --create-patches --app=firefox --config=../patcher-configs/moz18-branch-major-update-patcher2.cfg 2>&1 | tee ../firefox-create-patches.log

Generate Null Partner Snippets

Create Partner Channel List

Starting with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=334332

# Removed any channels that don't start with 'release-' from the list
# Now, we only have a list of the real release channels for partner builds
# we need to add beta and test channels to the list:
for i in `cat partner-update-channels`; do basechan=`echo $i | sed -e 's/release-//'` && echo "beta-$basechan" >> partner-update-channels && echo "betatest-$basechan" >> partner-update-channels && echo "releasetest-$basechan" >> partner-update-channels; done
# now, we have all the channels we need except for the 4 listed at the start
# because the real release channels aren't prepended with 'release' we will do this different:
for i in [list of channels that don't start with release-]; do echo $i >> partner-update-channels && echo 'beta-$i' >> partner-update-channels && echo 'betatest-$i' >> partner-update-channels && echo 'releasetest-$i' >> partner-update-channels; done
# now we have a complete list of partner channels to generate snippets for

Generate null snippets

1. updated null_partners.sh with 2.0.0.16 buildids, and enabled it to read a list of partner channels from an external file