1694531 - Please add documentation to the Firefox Source Docs for how to run tryserver builds on Apple Silicon machines

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: Build Documentation, enhancement)

Description

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Getting builds from the tryserver to run on Apple Silicon machines is not straightforward because of signing requirements and download quarantining. Bug 1693422 has some details.

Please add a section in the documentation about how to do it. The target audience for this page would be both developers and users; sometimes developers want to ask users to try out test builds to check whether a certain bug is still reproducible, and in those cases it will be good to have a page that we can reference.

Comment 1

[Mitchell Hentges [:mhentges] 🦀]

Attachment: Bug 1694531: Add docs for quarantined Try builds

Removes irrelevant mercurial-specific information about
pushing to try, adds note about removing the qurantine
attribute from Try builds.

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/bbfa187adf60
Add docs for quarantined Try builds r=sheehan

Comment 4

[Narcis Beleuzu [:NarcisB]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/bbfa187adf60

Comment 5

[Mitchell Hentges [:mhentges] 🦀]

Attachment: Bug 1694531: Clarify try docs regarding signing and OS signatures

• Don't use a separate heading level for the signature-resolution
  section, since RST thought it was more important than the others (the
  original goal was for it to be a lesser header).
• Clarify that most try builds aren't signed.
• Hint at the details of how an OS decides if a downloaded file isn't
  trusted.

Comment 6

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

While searching for this page in the docs, I came across https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/taskcluster/try.html . It still mentions the old try syntax, and it doesn't have a link to the "Pushing to try" page, so it might be an opportunity for future cleanup.

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/f6ebe9de8072
Clarify try docs regarding signing and OS signatures r=glandium DONTBUILD

Comment 8

[Iulian Moraru]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f6ebe9de8072