582173 - try server: Set platform environment variable for use in mozconfig-extra

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Steve Fink [:sfink] [:s:]]

I know you guys are working on a much nicer way to select try server jobs, but I was wondering if you could sneak in a small modification: before invoking the build, set some environment variable (MOZ_PLATFORM? TRY_PLATFORM? PLATFORM?) to the name of the current platform. That would allow much easier aborting of unwanted builds than the current mozconfig-$platform stuff.

I normally want to select which platforms to *include*, not exclude, and the set of platforms changes over time. Right now, I'm doing it by checking the output of uname and exiting unless it contains the one I want. But I don't know what uname returns on all of the different platforms tested, so I have to stick with the ones I know. I'd much rather just do

  if [ $MOZ_PLATFORM != linux64 ]; exit 1; fi

Comment 1

[Armen [:armenzg]]

lsblakk is leading this.
Unfortunately you will have to wait until next week as she is on holidays right now.

Comment 2

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Bug 473184 is tracking the work that will be done this quarter to allow for the selection of specific platforms to build.  This suggestion is good but the time required to "sneak" something like this in is better put toward getting the selection options available in the hg commit message and/or config file checked in with the build.  Both ideas require time to test and the method in bug 473184 is the one that will help us in the long run with getting a web interface up and running again with the new tryserver.