744989 - Formal mechanism to disable B2G updates in development builds

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Vines [:m1] [:evilmachines]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.152 Safari/535.19

Steps to reproduce:

By default local gaia is updated with changes to gaiamobile.org.  This is generally convenient, but it is a nuisance during bring up activities or while performing analysis on a known build.   An UI in this case renders the environment invalid.   One method for disabling updates is to play around with /etc/hosts.  The ask here is to simply formalize the mechanism used to disable updates by a |make stop-updates| command or something.     When Gecko updates are enabled by default, we'll want a way to disable that as well.

Comment 1

[[:fabrice] Fabrice Desré]

You can use a dummy domain instead of gaiamobile.org:

cd $GAIA
GAIA_DOMAIN=foo.org make install-gaia
adb push profile/user.js /data/b2g/mozilla/$$PROFILE_DIR$$/user.js

I'm not sure if we'll want to prevent applications updates or not.

Comment 2

[Michael Vines [:m1] [:evilmachines]]

Cool, sounds like that'll work.  Just asking for that to be shoved into a make target that's easily  regurgitated when needed.

Comment 3

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

The fix for this is on the b2g build-system side: we'll have "official" builds that update, and "unofficial" ones that don't.  If you have a minute, plz to be filing in b2g, /me hasn't had time :/.

Turning off appcache updates is not what we want to do.

Comment 4

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Not blocking on this, but making a note on the Gaia hacking page.

Comment 5

[Andreas Gal :gal]

We are no longer using app cache shortly, so this problem will go away.

Comment 7

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

I added the tip from comment #1 here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Hacking#Disabling_updates

This was discussed during the B2G triage call and it was recommended that we close this as WONTFIX.