723279 - Figure out what backend to use for Lightning Nightly updates

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

See bug 322522 for the bigger picture.


There will be an update.rdf script in bug 723273 that serves update items. This script also needs to display a hash sum of the nightly .xpi packages.

This update hash needs to be generated somewhere (buildbot) and saved somewhere so that the update script can display it. Some options:

* make buildbot upload an MD5SUMS file to the nightly directories, add a cron job that downloads those files from the machine that hosts the update.rdf script.

* make buildbot add the sums to some sort of database and have the update.rdf-machine get those dynamically via database query

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Since ftp.mozilla.org is https only, this is no longer needed. We can reiterate if we need to serve something off releases.mozilla.org, which doesn't require https and never will.