412006 - should use tagged version of signing tools, not HEAD

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

This really caused us headaches during the FF3.0beta2 release.

Comment 1

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

According to the doc and the code, tag support is already there for the thing that bit us (bug 407962), "--release FIREFOX_3_0b2_RELEASE" (this is in the signing doc s well). However, signing tools were broken in this tag (fixed in bug 375415).

There are several problems here:

* we don't use the latest update-packaging tools anywhere else, we use a static tag (formerly MOZILLA_1_9a2_RELEASE, now UPDATE_PACKAGING_R1).
* the signing doc checks out a lot of tools, mostly from HEAD

We can just update the doc to pull the right mish-mash of versions, but there are a lot of manual steps in there that just don't need to be; we should automate this (bug 409479), as it's going to be hard to keep the doc up to date and working on different products and branches.

Comment 2

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

Manually pulling mish-mash versions was ugly for beta2, so I'd rather not relive that if possible. 

Until we sort this out, could we manually apply a static tag on the right mish-mash of versions? That way, when we are in the midst of beta3, we can easily see what to pull, and know thats exactly what we already pre-tested? 

(Its also easier to doc!)

Comment 3

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Manually pulling mish-mash versions was ugly for beta2, so I'd rather not
> relive that if possible. 
> 
> Until we sort this out, could we manually apply a static tag on the right
> mish-mash of versions? That way, when we are in the midst of beta3, we can
> easily see what to pull, and know thats exactly what we already pre-tested? 
> 
> (Its also easier to doc!)

Hm, let me investigate a bit more. I think we probably cannot, because we need the current tagged release for the upx installer stuff. We could use e.g. UPDATE_PACKAGING_R1 for everything else, but the signing script doesn't know how to do that (just uses the same tag for all checkouts, afaict).

Comment 4

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

Triaged to Future.

Comment 5

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Mass move of bugs from Release Engineering:Future -> Release Engineering. See
http://coop.deadsquid.com/2010/02/kiss-the-future-goodbye/ for more details.

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

We've been doing this for awhile!