1247530 - Distro not supported error while importing bootstrap dependencies

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: Bootstrap Configuration, defect, P5)

Description

[yogendrasy]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20160206220300

Steps to reproduce:

wget -q https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/default/python/mozboot/bin/bootstrap.py && python bootstrap.py


Actual results:

error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "bootstrap.py", line 159, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
  File "bootstrap.py", line 149, in main
    dasboot = cls(choice=options.application_choice, no_interactive=options.no_interactive)
  File "/tmp/tmpTl9vAc/mozboot/bootstrap.py", line 93, in __init__
    except ImportError:
NotImplementedError: Bootstrap support for this Linux distro not yet available. 


Expected results:

bootstrap dependencies should be imported.

my distro details:
DISTRIB_ID=Zorin
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Zorin OS 9"
NAME="Zorin OS"
VERSION="9"
ID=Zorin OS
ID_LIKE=ubuntu
PRETTY_NAME="Zorin OS 9"
VERSION_ID="9"
HOME_URL="http://www.zorin-os.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.zorin-os.com/help/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

Comment 1

[Yaron Shahrabani]

Same goes for Alpine.

Comment 2

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

Yes, this is a known issue.  If people really want bootstrap support on their custom Linux distro, those people are going to have to write bootstrap support for it.

We can consider patches.

Comment 3

[Rafi]

I do no this issue is old. But wouldn't it be awesome if the supported distro list is downloaded with bootstrap.py or a simple option prompting user to add their distro name (with warning) if their distro is not supported.

Comment 4

[Rafi]

Rather than requiring making new users to add their distro name to the bootstrap.py manually.

Comment 5

[Nathan Froyd [:froydnj]]

(In reply to Rafi from comment #4)
> Rather than requiring making new users to add their distro name to the
> bootstrap.py manually.

Well, it's not just the distro name that would need to be added, you'd also need to define how your distro installs packages, the particular names of the packages, etc. etc.  It's not as simple as prompting the user.

Comment 6

[Rafi]

But for distro that have minor variations to supported ones they should prompt

Comment 7

[Rafi]

I am using bunsenlabs that a minor variation of pure Debian. I do get error saying it is not supported.