Releases/Firefox 3.6/BuildNotes
< Releases | Firefox 3.6
Until we're about to ship this page will serve as a spot to put down a rough checklist of what needs to be done to ship.
Release Engineers
Tracking Bug
Notes
Stage and Rename files
Much the same as Firefox 3.5.
# ffxbld@stage mkdir firefox-3.6 cd firefox-3.6 rsync -av --exclude='*partial.mar' --exclude=source --exclude=*SUMS /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6rc2/ . find contrib linux-i686 update -type f | perl -nle '$nf = $_; if ( $nf =~ s/rc2// ) { system("mv","-v",$_,$nf)}' find mac win32 -type f | perl -nle '$nf = $_; if ( $nf =~ s/\ RC\ 2// ) { system("mv","-v",$_,$nf)};' wget -O../firefox-3.6-shipped-locales http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/raw-file/FIREFOX_3_6rc2_RELEASE/browser/locales/shipped-locales ~cltbld/bin/verify-locales.pl -m ~/firefox-3.6-shipped-locales -l bz2 ~cltbld/bin/checksum-files . chown -R ffxbld:firefox linux-i686 mac update win32 chmod 644 *SUMS
Content verification
find /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6rc2/ -type f | perl -nle '$a = substr($_,41); $a =~ s/rc2//; $a =~ s/\ RC\ 2//; system("diff","-q",$_,$a);'
Output:
diff: contrib/solaris_tarball/firefox-3.6rc1-3.6.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-sparc.partial.mar: No such file or directory diff: contrib/solaris_tarball/firefox-3.6rc1-3.6.en-US.solaris-10-fcs-i386.partial.mar: No such file or directory diff: contrib/solaris_tarball/firefox-3.6rc1-3.6.en-US.opensolaris-i386.partial.mar: No such file or directory diff: contrib/solaris_tarball/firefox-3.6rc1-3.6.en-US.opensolaris-sparc.partial.mar: No such file or directory diff: source/firefox-3.6.bundle.asc: No such file or directory diff: source/firefox-3.6.bundle: No such file or directory diff: source/firefox-3.6.source.tar.bz2.asc: No such file or directory diff: source/firefox-3.6.source.tar.bz2: No such file or directory diff: update/linux-i686/af/firefox-3.6rc1-3.6.partial.mar: No such file or directory diff: update/linux-i686/ar/firefox-3.6rc1-3.6.partial.mar: No such file or directory ... diff: update/win32/zh-CN/firefox-3.6rc1-3.6.partial.mar: No such file or directory diff: update/win32/zh-TW/firefox-3.6rc1-3.6.partial.mar: No such file or directory Files /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6rc2/MD5SUMS and MD5SUMS differ Files /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6rc2/SHA1SUMS and SHA1SUMS differ
Everything above is expected: We don't want the partials, we regenerated *SUMS because of filename changes, and we haven't yet regenerated source packages yet.
Ownernship/permission verification
find . ! -user ffxbld find . ! -group firefox find . -type f ! -perm 644 find . -mindepth 1 -type d ! -perm 755 ! -name 'contrib*' find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -perm 2775 -name 'contrib*'
Virus check
clamscan -r --quiet -i .
Add index files
Pending beltzner's signoff on file attached to bug 540666.
for dir in `find . -type d -mindepth 1`; do cp -p index.html $dir/; done
Generate major update
Bouncer Setup
Tag and Source package regeneration
On release day.
Push to Mirrors
Update rsync modules
Push Major Update
Symlink update
Remove index.html files
Once we are fully announced we can remove the index.html files:
cd /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6/ find . -name index.html | less find . -name index.html | xargs rm -v