1588396 - Add support for PureOS to bootstrap.py

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: Bootstrap Configuration, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Marusich]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Steps to reproduce:

In order to install the dependencies required for building Firefox, I ran bootstrap.py as recommended here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Simple_Firefox_build/Linux_and_MacOS_build_preparation

Actual results:

The invocation "python bootstrap.py" failed because the system is a PureOS system, and PureOS is not currently supported.

$ python bootstrap.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "bootstrap.py", line 194, in <module>
sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
File "bootstrap.py", line 184, in main
vcs=options.vcs)
File "/tmp/tmpM6SptA/mozboot/bootstrap.py", line 278, in init

NotImplementedError: Bootstrap support for this Linux distro not yet available: PureOS

Expected results:

I expected bootstrap.py to install the dependencies. I was able to work around the issue by manually installing the dependencies by hand.

PureOS is a derivative of Debian, so it might be fairly easy to support in bootstrap.py. Here is some more information about PureOS:

https://puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-and-how-is-it-built/
https://pureos.net/

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Botond Ballo [:botond]]

I ran into this as well, trying to bootstrap Firefox on a Purism Librem.

Comment 3

[Botond Ballo [:botond]]

It seems that simply adding "pureos" to DEBIAN_DISTROS is sufficient.

Comment 4

[Botond Ballo [:botond]]

Attachment: Bug 1588396 - Add 'pureos' to DEBIAN_DISTROS. r=mhentges

Verified to work on Purism Librem running PureOS 10 (Byzantium).

Comment 5

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/292b26b20ace
Add 'pureos' to DEBIAN_DISTROS. r=mhentges

Comment 6

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/292b26b20ace