997499 - Need an update watershed in 29.0bN for beta channel

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: Release Automation: Other, defect)

Description

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

To support bug 908134 (release builds on beta channel as an RC), we need to set up updates like this:
   28.0b9 and older --> 29.0bN --> latest
             29.0b* --> latest

This is to make sure they have an updater on disk which understands updatev3.manifests in the mar files, and a precomplete file on disk that doesn't remove update-settings.ini. If we don't do this before they get an RC build, then will not be able to accept beta tagged mar files later.

The 2nd path is an optimization for slightly out of date users, to avoid two-step updates for them. [Bug archaeology - bug 900251, which landed at the same time as 759469, 896223, 896224].

lsblakk, sledru: no changes needed when starting 29.0b9, we just need my upcoming patch to land before then

ashughes: this will impact your update testing, 28.0b* and older will go to 29.0b9 then onwards

FYI CC: hwine, rstrong

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Attachment: [tools] Remove all but 29.0b* from patcher config

This will stop generating snippets for builds older than 29.0b1, and stop testing update verify for those too (because they're derived from the patcher config). 

Correction:
ashughes: this will impact your update testing - 28.0b* and older will go to 29.0b8 then onwards

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Comment on attachment 8407905 [details] [diff] [review]
[tools] Remove all but 29.0b* from patcher config

>-            <29.0b1>
>+           <29.0b1>

Fixed this unintended whitespace change locally.

Comment 3

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Comment on attachment 8407905 [details] [diff] [review]
[tools] Remove all but 29.0b* from patcher config

I would hope the unintentional whitespace change would only have cosmetic consequences, but I wouldn't be surprised if it affected something.

Comment 4

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Comment on attachment 8407905 [details] [diff] [review]
[tools] Remove all but 29.0b* from patcher config

https://hg.mozilla.org/build/tools/rev/6d68be2cb18a