1171317 - Loaner documentation not clear on windows builder setup

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: CIDuty, task)

Description

[hwine]

:ewong couldn't locate the current mozillabuild setup on his loaner - the default appears to be 1.5.1 even though VS2013 is installed.

We should document setups (or point to existing docs) on the loaner page:
  https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/Request_a_slave

Comment 1

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

(In reply to Hal Wine [:hwine] (use NI) from comment #0)
> :ewong couldn't locate the current mozillabuild setup on his loaner - the
> default appears to be 1.5.1 even though VS2013 is installed.
> 
> We should document setups (or point to existing docs) on the loaner page:
>   https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/Request_a_slave

IMO wrong page, but certainly a good jumping-off-point.

Comment 2

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

(In reply to Hal Wine [:hwine] (use NI) from comment #0)
> :ewong couldn't locate the current mozillabuild setup on his loaner - the
> default appears to be 1.5.1 even though VS2013 is installed.

I pulled up a b2g-inbound-win32_gecko build and found an ENV variable in the first build step (and all subsequent steps):

MOZILLABUILD=C:\mozilla-build\

Was ewong working from an existing log to debug an issue, or doing something new?

Comment 3

[hwine]

:ewong - can you add your more recent issues here as well? Looks like there may be some assumptions we're making about how familiar devs are with the setup.

Comment 4

[Edmund Wong (:ewong)]

:hwine, 

I thought I needed the latest mozilla-build to get some of the latest stuff (and to get the vs2013 start batch file), but I realized that after installing the
latest mozilla build, I had made the build environment different than the
buildbots env, which ruins my ability to do some test runs on the mail
builds.

I really should have been careful if I was to reproduce a build environment
similar to the buildbot env.

Comment 5

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

I've added/updated sections of the slave request doc:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/Request_a_slave#How_do_I_recreate_this_failure.3F
https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/How_To/Request_a_slave#Can_I_install_X.3F_-_root_access