493875 - Sisyphus - remove use of -install-global-extension

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing Graveyard :: Sisyphus, defect)

Description

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Attachment: patch

bug 396510 removed the command line option -install-global-extension to install extensions on the trunk. An alternative method is to place a text file with the same name as the UUID of an extension either in the application's extensions directory or the extensions directory of the profile. 

The approach I've chosen is to unzip the extensions into /tmp/sisyphus/extensions/<extensionname> and to drop a text file into the application's extensions directory. 

testing/sisyphus/bin/get-extension-uuid.pl uses XML::Simple to parse the install.rdf file to obtain the UUID for the extension. Note that it uses namespaces and therefore requires a SAX Parser such as XML::SAX::Expat.

A follow up bug will be to create an uninstaller to remove the UUID file from the application's extensions directory.

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/tracemonkey/rev/f5f7bc23b5c9

rsayre, when you do your merges back to mozilla-central will you pick up pushes to testing/sisyphus?

Comment 2

[Robert Sayre]

yeah

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

/cvsroot/mozilla/testing/sisyphus/bin/get-extension-uuid.pl,v  <--  get-extension-uuid.pl
initial revision: 1.1

/cvsroot/mozilla/testing/sisyphus/bin/install-extensions-2.html,v  <--  install-extensions-2.html
new revision: delete; previous revision: 1.1

/cvsroot/mozilla/testing/sisyphus/bin/install-extensions.sh,v  <--  install-extensions.sh
new revision: 1.10; previous revision: 1.9

/cvsroot/mozilla/testing/sisyphus/bin/library.sh,v  <--  library.sh
new revision: 1.16; previous revision: 1.15