655917 - Block 4.0 major update for RHEL5 (and derivatives)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P2)

Description

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

Bug 655597 is about RHEL having too old libstdc++ to run Firefox 4.0. This bug is to block updates for those users. 

A Centos 5.0 (equivalent to RHEL5.0) box makes a request like this: https://aus2.mozilla.org/update/3/Firefox/3.6.17/20110420140830/Linux_x86-gcc3/en-US/release/Linux%202.6.18-53.1.19.el5%20(GTK%202.10.4)/default/default/update.xml?force=1

ie the kernel is blah-blah.el5, which I think we can block on. FWIW the latest RHEL5.6 has kernel-2.6.18-238.9.1.el5, so the match is still valid.

Comment 1

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

(In reply to comment #0)
> Bug 655597 is about RHEL having too old libstdc++ to run Firefox 4.0.

Specifically RHEL5.

Comment 2

[LegNeato]

Does CentOS identify the same?

Comment 3

[John Ford [:jhford] CET/CEST Berlin Time]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Does CentOS identify the same?

[cltbld@linux-ix-slave03 ~]$ uname -r
2.6.18-8.el5PAE
[cltbld@linux-ix-slave03 ~]$ cat /etc/issue
CentOS release 5 (Final)
Kernel \r on an \m

This is from centos 5.0.  Aiui, all RHEL derivatives use the elN version string portion.

Comment 4

[Shyam Mani [:fox2mike]]

Yup, since they're all "Enterprise Linux" :)

Comment 5

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

Attachment: [cvs] Block kernels verisons ending '.el5 '

Welcome back Ben, here's one of the fun reviews you will have missed. ;-) 

Comment #0 has the background on what we want to block here and why. It seems likely there will be other users with the same problem and we will try to deal with them as we get reports.

I've tried to make the match more specific but AUS doesn't support wildcards (so Linux*.el5 is out), and there are many kernel versions that would appear where that * is. This shouldn't have an adverse affect on Windows or Mac, and has been tested on aus2-staging.

Comment 6

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Comment on attachment 531278 [details] [diff] [review]
[cvs] Block kernels verisons ending '.el5 '

Review of attachment 531278 [details] [diff] [review]:
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Thanks for the explanation, looks good to me!

Comment 7

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

Comment on attachment 531278 [details] [diff] [review]
[cvs] Block kernels verisons ending '.el5 '

Checking in config-dist.php;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/aus/xml/inc/config-dist.php,v  <--  config-dist.php
new revision: 1.142; previous revision: 1.141
done

$ cvs tag AUS2_PRODUCTION config-dist.php
W config-dist.php : AUS2_PRODUCTION already exists on version 1.141 : NOT MOVING tag to version 1.142
$ cvs tag -F AUS2_PRODUCTION config-dist.php
T config-dist.php