665337 - Update on the beta channel caused a switch to the release channel

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[JK]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0

Update on the beta channel caused a switch to the release channel.

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/rev/7b56ff900c2a

--enable-application=browser --enable-update-channel=release --enable-update-packaging --enable-jemalloc --enable-tests --enable-official-branding

Reproducible: Always


Actual Results:  
Beta channel became release with an update.

Expected Results:  
If you are on the beta channel, it should stay in the beta channel like Chrome.

Comment 1

[JK]

Caused by Bug 659972 - Remove channel switching UI ?

Comment 2

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Hmm, my channel-prefs.js with above Build still says "pref("app.update.channel", "beta");". Isn't that saying it's staying on Beta Channel?

Comment 3

[Michael Lefevre]

Mine is too.  I suspect what has happened is not that update channel has switched, but that the release candidate build (from the releases development "channel") has been intentionally given to beta users.  That makes sense in terms of the sequence of releases, although it means there's a temporary mismatch between the development "channels" and the app update channels.

Comment 4

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Yeah, the RC was pushed to the beta channel. This isn't a problem, because updates can never change the channel that you're on (channel-prefs.js is explicitly left untouched by the updater).