1869038 - android emulator version should be pinned

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: Toolchains, defect)

Description

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We pin the version of most tools in mozboot/android.py: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/23e7e940337d0e0b29aabe0080e4992d3860c940/python/mozboot/mozboot/android.py#23

We don't, however, pin the emulator version which recently caused https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1868944 when we rebuilt toolchains and took an update.

Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to install older emulator version with sdkmanager (none are listed in the obsolete package list). For the short term, we ended up letting mozboot do its thing, and then overwriting the emulator it installed with the preferred one.

In the medium term, we should improve this fix. At the very least, we should move the emulator version specification to the toolchain task description. But it may also be better to get rid of mozboot's emulator selection, and replace it with a similar manually downloaded/installed solution in mozboot. This would fix things for CI, but also make sure that users are running the same version locally.

Comment 1

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

I ended up applying the same pinning hack to the android-sdk-linux repack, in bug 1869407.

Comment 2

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

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:owlish, could you have a look please?

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Comment 3

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

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:glandium, could you have a look please?

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