626995 - Broken Updates on nightly build 01/19/2011

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Ioana Chiorean]

Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:2.0b10pre)
Gecko/20110119 Firefox/4.0b10pre Fennec/4.0b4pre 
Device: HTC Desire A8181
OS: android 2.1

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install previous version (build is 20110118 or less)
2. Check for updates

Expected result:
- a notification should appear in the notification bar stating that there is a new version

Actual result:
- no updates notification appears in the notification bar even if at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-central-android-r7/ a new version is present with build id 20110119

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Confirmed I don't get an update for 20110119

Comment 2

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Have we tested trying to update from 20110117 ? 

We made a midday respin yesterday that might have messed up the update system.

Comment 3

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

The midday respin did break things, but because the clock was wrong on the build machine, not because of anything else.

Since nightly updates involve a lot of "what's the buildid of the most recent build" and "what's the most recent buildid", creating a buildid that's quote-unquote older than another one breaks things.

Bug 626808 is tracking the clock issue.

Comment 4

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

(Oh, and I manually fixed the updates by copying the latest snippet into the "newest" buildid directory)

Comment 5

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Verified fix and update snippets are working.   Downloaded and installed Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv71; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20110119 Firefox/4.0b9pre Fennec/4.0b4pre