1777554 - Add an option to control whether update is disabled

Status: NEW

(Testing :: mozregression, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Robin Steuber (she/her) [:bytesized]]

Application update is automatically disabled by mozregression. This is done by setting app.update.enabled and setting the DisableAppUpdate enterprise policy.

This makes it very difficult to find a regression range for update bugs. Could a setting be added to control this so that it could be turned off when finding a regression for update bugs?

Comment 1

[Zeid [:zeid]]

:bytesized -- for the prefs (e.g. app.update.enabled or app.update.auto) you should be able to pass those via the --pref argument (at least in the CLI). For the policy, it is currently hardcoded and I don't think there's a way to achieve that right now without some code changes.

It looks like for policies, we just overwrite the whole file with {"policies": {"DisableAppUpdate": True}}. So one option is to add an argument that allows overriding policy keys/values, and make that available to the launcher before it starts (which currently does not have access to any of the arguments before it starts).

Comment 2

[Robin Steuber (she/her) [:bytesized]]

(In reply to Zeid Zabaneh [:zeid] from comment #1)

So one option is to add an argument that allows overriding policy keys/values, and make that available to the launcher before it starts

That would work just great.

Comment 3

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/mozregression/pull/1067