1497082 - bootstrap downloads outdated packages which results in unsuccessful build (versoin conflicts)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: Bootstrap Configuration, defect)

Description

[shivambalikondwar]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2018-10-07 23-29-54.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/69.0.3497.81 Chrome/69.0.3497.81 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1)mkdir src && cd src
2)download the bootstrap.py and run it from src folder
the bootstrap will install the required packages
3)then do  hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/ beta
4)then ./mach build
5)process raises error


Actual results:

when i ran bootstrap as always and then downloaded the repo ,it happened that the newest build now doesn't support  node 8.10.0 (system:ubuntu apt manager)
the required version is 8.11 or newer 
so the build failed


Expected results:

the version that needed to be downloaded was 8.11 but it didn't happened ,here are some points that one has to work on 
the bootstrap.py runs on sudo apt-get install nodejs i.e entirely on apt (package manager) 
but due to my research apt has node js repo's that are pretty old (8.10.0) and thus can't co-op with mozilla's newest (beta) release also one needs to run check on other packages that are being fetched and if they are outdated or not .
here are some files that can help
In total my idea will be to give a correct error message to user so that he can install the newest version from the official website ,at the same time it is highly unreliable to run apt and download out-dated packages so one needs to rectify it .
this may happen with other packages as well i haven't checked for every package yet