Closed Bug 857954 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Symlinks in firefox source tarball (source incomplete)

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: mark, Unassigned)

Details

Downloading and unpacking the source tarball for Firefox, I noticed that there are a number of symlinks in the tarball (and thus files that are supposed to be included in the source are missing - the source tarball is incomplete).

Trying to unpack (on a Windows machine) with tar -xvjf gives me the following at the end of unpacking:

tar: mozilla-release/toolkit/crashreporter/google-breakpad/autotools/compile: Cannot create symlink to `/usr/share/automake-1.11/compile': No such file or directory
tar: mozilla-release/b2g/config/panda-gaia-central/sources.xml: Cannot create symlink to `../panda/sources.xml': No such file or directory
tar: mozilla-release/b2g/config/panda-gaia-central/README: Cannot create symlink to `../panda/README': No such file or directory
tar: mozilla-release/b2g/config/panda-gaia-central/releng-pandaboard.tt: Cannot create symlink to `../panda/releng-pandaboard.tt': No such file or directory
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Component: General → Release Engineering: Releases
Product: Firefox → mozilla.org
QA Contact: bhearsum
Version: 20 Branch → other
The symlinked files are only used on unix platforms AFAIK.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Component: Release Engineering: Releases → Build Config
Product: mozilla.org → Core
QA Contact: bhearsum
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Version: other → unspecified
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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