980149 - Collections currently missing on 1.3

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::System, defect)

Description

[John Hammink]

Latest 1.3 nightly (gecko & gaia) from March 5
base image: 1.2-device.cfg

STR:

1.) Flash the latest build for the version you are aiming to test
2.) On a clean system, pull Gaia locally with git installed by running "git clone https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia.git"
3.) Pull the reference customization locally with git installed by running "git clone https://github.com/mozilla/qa-testcase-data.git"
4.) In the Gaia directory, run "git checkout branchname", where branchname equals the branch you are testing (e.g. if you want 1.2, you would run git checkout v1.2).  I tried with both 1.2 and 1.3
5.) In the Gaia directory, run "MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1 GAIA_DISTRIBUTION_DIR=../qa-testcase-data/customization/reference make production" 

Expected:  You should get the reference customization, including collections.

Actual:   Reference customization is installed, but there are not customizations.

NOTE:  There is a slight possibility that the problem is with my customization, but I'd rather file this and get it looked at to be sure.

Comment 1

[John Hammink]

Nomming this because, if this is actually broken, it's kind of a problem.

Comment 2

[John Hammink]

Upon deeper digging here, it may be the case that my customization has no collections in it.  Need to dig into that.

Comment 3

[Albert [:albert]]

As you said in comment 2 you  need to add collections in your customization homescreens.json

I added:

["apps/homescreen/collections", "social"],
["apps/homescreen/collections", "games"],
["apps/homescreen/collections", "music"],
["apps/homescreen/collections", "showbiz"],

and it works.

Comment 4

[John Hammink]

I'll just add the following steps, for reference (it will save me from having to figure this out again in the distant future when I must next test this):

6.) edit the file ../qa-testcase-data/customization/reference/homescreens.json  to contain collections.  It should look something like this (note the syntax):

{"homescreens": [
  [
    ["apps/homescreen/collections", "tv" ],
    ["apps/homescreen/collections", "funny"]
  ] , [
  	["apps", "communications", "dialer"],
  	["apps", "sms"], 
  	["apps", "browser"],
  	["apps", "camera"]
  ]
]}

7.) Make sure the folder under gaia contains collections "tv" and "funny":

ls ../gaia/apps/homescreen/collections

entertainiment	local		shopping	sports
funny		music		showbiz		tv
games		news		social

8.)  then run the customization flash in step 5, and make sure the collections "tv" and "funny" are created.  (they are :)