803274 - Releng info for building beta and release stub installer from aurora and nightly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

This bug is to provide a simpler method for building.

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Attachment: Release stub off of nightly

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Attachment: Beta stub off of nightly (requires applying "Release stub off of nightly" patch first)

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Attachment: Release stub off of aurora

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Attachment: Beta stub off of aurora (requires applying "Release stub off of aurora" patch first)

Comment 5

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

After building Firefox, to build a release stub apply the appropriate  "Release stub off of..." patch. If you are building a beta stub apply the appropriate  "Release stub off of..." patch and the appropriate "Beta stub off of..." patch. Then

If building off of nightly
run make in <objdir>/browser/branding/nightly

If building off of aurora
run make in <objdir>/browser/branding/aurora

run make installer in <objdir>/browser/installer/windows

I believe that is it and I'll verify the above works when I have a few moments

Comment 6

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

pro-tip: use "hg import --no-commit" to apply the patches. "patch" fails to handle the binary files properly.

Comment 7

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

use "hg import --no-commit -f" to avoid hg complaining about uncommitted changes.

I used the "Release stub off nightly" and "Beta stub off nightly" attachments above to produce these two builds:

http://people.mozilla.org/~catlee/stub-beta.exe
http://people.mozilla.org/~catlee/stub-release.exe

On my VM these install 17.0b1-funnelcake16 and 16.0.1. I did get a testpilot page opened after I ran 16.0.1 for the first time, but maybe this is because I installed it on top of the beta install.

Can you please check that these stub installers behave appropriately? I haven't signed them yet, so you will get a warning about "The publisher can not be verified".

Comment 8

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Checked everything I was able and they look good so closing

Comment 9

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Attachment: 1. Nightly prep

Preps nightly using hg remove and hg copy for building the release stub. This should lessen conflicts.

Comment 10

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Attachment: 1. Stub prep

Preps nightly using hg remove and hg copy for building the release stub. This should lessen conflicts.

(removed file lines to lessen conflicts)

Comment 11

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Attachment: 2. Release stub (requires applying "1. Stub prep" patch first)

Comment 12

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Attachment: 3. Beta stub (requires applying "1. Stub prep" and "2. Release stub" patches first)

Comment 13

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

I applied the nightly patches to aurora without conflict so it should be possible to use the same patches for both aurora and nightly.