Closed Bug 602329 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Need a way to switch update channels

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

ARM
Android
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: mozilla, Unassigned)

Details

We weren't able to test the betatest channel due to this. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Software_update says about:config doesn't work (it doesn't). A way to change channels so we can test updates before pushing an update live will become very important once we're live.
QA normally changes <app>/defaults/pref/channel-prefs.js prior to starting the app. Is that available on Android ?
Fennec puts the app.update.channel in the <app>/defaults/preferences/mobile.js file, but on Android everything is bundled in the omnijar, so it's harder to extract-edit-repackage. I noticed in the code that we could play a trick using the partner update channel: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/mozapps/update/nsUpdateService.js#586 That is the code that gets the channel used in the AUS URL. The preference is read from the default branch, so even if you try to override "app.update.channel" in about:config, it won't work. However, notice how we look for partner channel info too? We might be able to tweak the channel using about:config. Something like: "app.partner.test" = "test" would create a channel like: "beta-cck-test"
Pushing to beta-cck-test and using app.partner.test = test worked. We probably want to doc this for testers; I've got it in my build notes and probably want to automate it. But we definitely have a way to switch update channels.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Verified: Mozille/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv:2.0b7pre) Gecko20101006 Firefox/4.0b7pre Fennec/4.0b1
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
[13:38] <nthomas> the other option is to copy app.update.url to app.update.url.override and s/%CHANNEL%/betatest/
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