864880 - Add support for gecko/gaia only builds

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

We'll want gecko/gaia only packages which install over vendor builds. This lets us quickly verify that bugs are fixed on our side without adding any potential bugs of our own when making a full build.

An additional advantage of this is that gecko and gaia are fully open and we don't have lock up these builds. They can also be distributed to our partners.

Comment 1

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

Which base target should we use for these builds?

Other than the base target, do the files contained in https://pvtbuilds.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/mozilla-b2g18-unagi_betatest/latest/b2g-18.0.en-US.android-arm.tar.gz or https://pvtbuilds.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/mozilla-b2g18-unagi_betatest/latest/b2g-gecko-update.mar have what you want?

Comment 2

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

There are a few general groups of compatible builds:

AOSP: emulator, nexus-s, panda
ics_chocolate: otoro, unagi, inari
ics_strawberry: hamachi, leo

A gecko built for one of the devices in the "family" should work on any other device in the group.

The tarball package that you linked should be sufficient for the gecko side of things.

gaia builds require the contents of gaia/profile. IIRC, we need to install the webapps directory and user.js.

Comment 3

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

Bumping bug priority. Without this type of build package, QA cannot do reasonable testing of newer devices.

Comment 4

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

Is gaia/profile currently packaged up as part of the build process anywhere?

Comment 5

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

Part of it is - see gaia/profile.tar.gz. However, you'll also need gaia/profile/user.js .

Comment 6

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

So just to be clear, QA would also like the commercial ril to be packaged into this support if possible.

in summary, have a produced build that we can flash Gecko, Gaia, and Commercial RIL.  Gonk doesnt change, because we would have already have updated certain devices with the vendor binaries from their flashing tool.

Comment 7

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

Attachment: package and upload gaia.zip

Comment 8

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

Attachment: upload gecko for mozilla-b2g18

Comment 9

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Merged to production.

Comment 10

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

Tony, what's left to do here? Are these bits working for you?

Comment 11

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

(In reply to Chris AtLee [:catlee] from comment #10)
> Tony, what's left to do here? Are these bits working for you?

Chris, this is all working fine now.  the flashing is a little tricky, but i've documented how to do that here:  

https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/QA/Tips_And_Tricks#Flashing_only_Gecko_and_Gaia_bits_over_your_base_image

you can close this out, thanks.