296395 - Improve accuracy of build id

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 431270

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050602 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050602 Firefox/1.0+

The current build identifier in firefox builds (and presumably other
applications) is not enough to uniquely identify the build. The build identifier
should include the minute of the build since we have machines building faster
than once an hour.

It might also be a good idea to use the cvs checkout time as the identifier
rather than generate it during the build. This would make it easier to track
which checkins the build has.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




See also bug 70903 and bug 244485 which are other build id improvements and
these changes could all be lumped together.

Comment 1

[Jaime Mitchell (use [e-mail] for email)]

Confirming. This should help track down regression causes.

Comment 2

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

Newer discussion has arisen in bug 431270 and bug 431905.

Comment 3

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

VERIFIED DUPLICATE, as the fix for bug 431270 provides the functionality requested in this bug.