950689 - move update packaging scripts to python

Status: NEW

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

In bug 770995 we've sketched out a plan to offload partial mar generation onto a dedicated pool of machines. This might be a good opportunity to move the existing logic around mar generation to python. Specifically:
https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/tools/update-packaging/common.sh
https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/tools/update-packaging/make_full_update.sh
https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/tools/update-packaging/make_incremental_update.sh
https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/tools/update-packaging/unwrap_full_update.pl

I don't think this is necessarily required, but it wouldn't hurt.

Comment 1

[Hal Wine [:hwine] use NI!]

Note: we already have buy-in for this approach (bug 770995 comment 8), so changing summary to actually do the work.