795774 - Maintaining "latest" mobile symlinks on ftp.mozilla.org (release and beta)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: Release Automation: Other, defect, P2)

Description

[François Marier [:francois]]

Background:

I noticed that the version of Firefox Beta that was available from http://f-droid.org/wiki/page/org.mozilla.firefox_beta was out of date and pinged the f-droid developers on IRC.

What I found out is that upstream developers don't upload to the f-droid market directly. Instead, it's like a Linux distro: the f-droid developers / maintainers build and upload new APKs and they get published on that market.

For most of the software, they watch the source code repositories directly and build+sign the APKs themselves. In the case of Firefox, it's not built from source for technical reasons but instead they download and republish our APKs.

That fetch+republish process is manual at the moment because they don't have a good way of identifying the latest APKs on our ftp site. There is no "latest-beta" symlink for Android and the one for release is out of date:

  ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/latest/android/multi/

If we could enable them to automatically fetch the right one, I imagine this would go a long way towards making sure that Firefox and Firefox Beta are kept up to date on that market.


Request:

On ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/ :

1- making sure that the "latest" symlink is up to date after each Android release
2- adding a new "latest-beta" symlink

These symlinks should point to the APKs that are currently available on Google Play.

Comment 1

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

Attachment: [braindump] Update symlinks after push

Tested on dev-stage01. I'll need to create latest-beta symlink before we run this the first time in anger.

Comment 2

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

Attachment: [braindump] Update symlinks after push

Leaving out the stray mod in my braindump repo.

Comment 3

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Comment on attachment 671276 [details] [diff] [review]
[braindump] Update symlinks after push

I suppose my only concern is if we go to a beta 10.
Hopefully we'll have an automated push by then?

Comment 4

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

I checked b10 or higher will be OK too, as it's not matching on the end of the string. FTR, not a real regexp either, just bash's pattern matching that's kinda similar but not really.

Comment 5

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

Comment on attachment 671276 [details] [diff] [review]
[braindump] Update symlinks after push

http://hg.mozilla.org/build/braindump/rev/87a8fe7c6c53

And created latest-beta on ftp.m.o. dev-stage01 doesn't have a mobile/releases, but if it ever gets one we can add an  |if [ -e $LATEST ]| around the rm.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

francois: can you get back to the f-droid team and tell them about this, so they can incorporate it into their process?

Thanks,

Gerv

Comment 7

[François Marier [:francois]]

Gerv: I pinged one of the main developers on IRC yesterday and he was happy to hear this.

Thanks Nick!