1677865 - Publish macOS updater docs in the tree

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Application Update, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

We have some great internal links about how the mac updater elevation works.

https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40044185
https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52265201

There's nothing confidential about these, and the information in them would be really great for tracking down updater bugs.

We should get them in the tree somewhere.

It also might useful to document basically what the updater does which boils down to:

sudo chown -R root:admin /Application/Firefox.app
sudo chmod -R g+w /Applications/Firefox.app

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Mike Kaply [:mkaply] from comment #0)

We have some great internal links about how the mac updater elevation works.

https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40044185
https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52265201

spohl: these links have rotted. I'm pretty sure one of them is https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~[e-mail]/pages/71041045/SecReview+Elevated+Updater+for+OSX+bug+394984 but I'm not sure what the other one might be -- could you try to determine the new URLs? Given recent shenanigans I'd like to improve the in-tree updater documentation in this area. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Stephen A Pohl [:spohl] (OOO until 1/26)]

(In reply to Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him] from comment #1)

(In reply to Mike Kaply [:mkaply] from comment #0)

We have some great internal links about how the mac updater elevation works.

https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40044185
https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52265201

spohl: these links have rotted. I'm pretty sure one of them is https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~[e-mail]/pages/71041045/SecReview+Elevated+Updater+for+OSX+bug+394984 but I'm not sure what the other one might be -- could you try to determine the new URLs? Given recent shenanigans I'd like to improve the in-tree updater documentation in this area. Thanks!

Yes, the other document is https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~[e-mail]/pages/71041071/UX+Review+Elevated+Updater+for+OSX+bug+394984.

Comment 3

[Chris DuPuis]

When we add the MacOS updater docs to the tree, let's also include a link to them in the all-up updater doc that will be added by the fix for this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1920189