535019 - No WinCE cab file generated for Firefox 3.6 beta 5

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.6b5-candidates/build1/wince-arm/en-US/ shows a zip file but no cab file. During the last beta cycle we definitely had a cab file available for testing.

Comment 1

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

We need someone to comment so we can proceed with testing this build in preparation for 3.6b5.

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

From the build logs it looks like the cab was produced OK but was omitted from the upload. I'll fix that shortly and then we should figure out why this happened.

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

juanb asked me to comment in this bug as to why the cab file is preferred. The cab file is a cleaner install/uninstall process. The zip file causes me to have to copy over files to the device and then the program does not show up in the list of programs installed.

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

juanb asked me to comment in this bug as to why the cab file is preferred. The cab file is a cleaner install/uninstall process. The zip file causes me to have to copy over files to the device and then the program does not show up in the list of programs installed.

Comment 5

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Yeah, this is a regression rather than something we intentionally stopped doing. 

To update what I've discovered: the cab was created OK but wasn't moved to the correct place for uploading (specifically, it's in objdir/dist/ rather than objdir/dist/wince-arm/en-US/). Something in the build system must've changed between b4 and b5 and I'll try to figure that out.

The cab is pushed up to 
 http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.6b5-candidates/build1/wince-arm/en-US/
to stop blocking QA.

Comment 6

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

This is a regression from bug 523856. The 3.6b4 and b5 calls for making the cab boil down to
 build/package/wince/make_wince_cab.py ... wince-arm/en-US/firefox-3.6b4.cab
 build/package/wince/make_wince_cab.py ... firefox-3.6b5.cab
where the last argument is the final location for the file produced. That's set here
 http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-1.9.2/file/FIREFOX_3_6b5_RELEASE/toolkit/mozapps/installer/packager.mk#l101

Comment 7

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Patch is up for review on bug 523856.

Comment 8

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Fixed by the additional patch in bug 523856:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.6rc1-candidates/build1/wince-arm/en-US/