1043262 - Allow more fine-grained autoclobber

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Currently, autoclobber is a big stick, clobbers everything, everywhere. It would be better to have some fine-grained tuning, as in being able to clobber only a given platform, or only do a limited clobber (will file another bug about one type of that)

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

The ability to only clobber automation machines would also be helpful, given comments in bug 1042115.

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

The challenging part here is cumulative effect: changeset A wants a clobber on linux, changeset B wants a clobber on android, and I'm building incrementally from a changeset older than both.

I guess we should keep the instructions as long as they haven't been obsoleted by something stronger.

Comment 3

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Deep integration with source control could solve this.

Alternatively, we could convert CLOBBER to an append-only "log" of clobber "events." Clients can store the last handled clobber event and examine the delta since.