1259606 - Temporarily use mozilla-esr45 to build a Thunderbird beta

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: Release Automation, defect)

Description

[Kent James (:rkent)]

We need to build one more beta for Thunderbird 45, but m-beta and c-beta have moved on. After investigation and discussion, we want to try to build the beta from c-esr45 which requires changes to the update channels in buildbot configs

Comment 1

[Kent James (:rkent)]

Switch of plans: we'll build from comm-beta but tell it to pull mozilla from mozilla-esr45

Comment 2

[Kent James (:rkent)]

Attachment: Switch to mozilla-esr45 in comm-beta.py.template

Comment 3

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

Comment on attachment 8734642 [details] [diff] [review]
Switch to mozilla-esr45 in comm-beta.py.template

Review of attachment 8734642 [details] [diff] [review]:
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It Should Just Work (TM) :)

Make sure to graft the commit to the production branch before starting the release build.

Comment 4

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

One important thing. https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/file/tip/mail/confvars.sh#l40 sets ACCEPTED_MAR_CHANNEL_IDS=thunderbird-comm-release, which means that the new installs will be accepting MAR files only for this channel.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

normally in ship-it we just use the fields at the top.
will we need to specify other/different ship-it fields to properly use these repos?

Comment 6

[Kent James (:rkent)]

Comment on attachment 8734642 [details] [diff] [review]
Switch to mozilla-esr45 in comm-beta.py.template

pushed to default:
http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/rev/a19d70100f08

Comment 7

[Kent James (:rkent)]

So I should set MAR ids like in the comm-beta default, that is like https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/file/a84eab12150a/mail/confvars.sh:

# This should usually be the same as the value MAR_CHANNEL_ID.
# If more than one ID is needed, then you should use a comma separated list
# of values.
ACCEPTED_MAR_CHANNEL_IDS=thunderbird-comm-beta,thunderbird-comm-release
# The MAR_CHANNEL_ID must not contain the following 3 characters: ",\t "
MAR_CHANNEL_ID=thunderbird-comm-beta

Comment 8

[Kent James (:rkent)]

Reverted in bug 1262562 as planned.