571215 - Automate the creation of the contrib directory with the correct permissions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Messaging Graveyard :: Release Engineering, defect)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

We're doing this for every release and we're wasting time on it (e.g. file bug, handle bug etc, e.g. see bug 571213), surely there must be a way to automate it for:

- Creation when under thunderbird/nightly/..../xxx-candidates/buildn/
- rsync into the release directory

Comment 1

[John Hopkins (:jhopkins)]

Attachment: Proposed shell script

Comment 2

[John Hopkins (:jhopkins)]

Attachment: Create the contrib* directories at build upload time

Comment 3

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Comment on attachment 478006 [details] [diff] [review]
Create the contrib* directories at build upload time

This needs review from bhearsum

Comment 4

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

I am puzzled as to why exactly the moco signing box doesn't have that problem when rsync'ing files to stage, but this makes the permissions explicitly set at the other end, which I like.

Comment 5

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

I don't really want to take this...can we try and figure out why your contrib dirs don't rsync correctly, instead?

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Comment on attachment 478006 [details] [diff] [review]
Create the contrib* directories at build upload time

I don't think this is the right approach

Comment 7

[John Hopkins (:jhopkins)]

FWIW, I spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out why the permissions weren't syncing properly.  I chose to solve the problem the way I did to avoid sinking too much time into a solution.  It's been running locally for months.