Thunderbird 2.0.0.13:BuildNotes

Using Bootstrap (RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M7_1) but starting steps manually.

Build Engineers

nthomas, rick

Version/config bump bug

bug 426259

Bonsai queries

Checking for no changes on the rel branch since Fx20013

• cvsroot
• l10n

Tags

Using the GECKO181_20080311_RELBRANCH.

NB: Talkback not listed, we're using pre-built binaries (bug 403701). It was still tagged because this change is very new, and the automation needs remedial lessons.

Build data

See page history for BuildIDs of prior RCs

Detailed Notes

Automation

Bootstrap tag: RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M8_1

Setup before starting:

• used existing version bump bug to attached diff for tb-moz18-bootstrap.cfg
• revert mozilla/config/milestone.txt and mozilla/client.mk on the rel branch so that Tagging can substitute cleanly (FIXME: need bug)
• ensure that machines have enough resources (bug 393274)
  • On production-1.8-master, remove private and public areas:
    • rm -rf /data/cltbld/firefox-*
    • rm -rf /builds/tags/* - did not do this, plenty of space
    • in /home/ftp/pub/firefox/nightly/, remove all except the 2.0.0.x-candidates directory for the previous release
    • pull in 2.0.0.12 files with rsync -av stage.mozilla.org:/home/ftp/pub/thunderbird/nightly/2.0.0.12-candidates /data/ftp/pub/thunderbird/nightly/
  • On the build machines (see table above), checked that there was sufficient working space (~ 1GB), and stopped tinderbox. Also verified there is space available on bm-xserve04 for l10n-verify.
  • On prometheus-vm, checked that there was space for another update run (4GB)
• on each machine, setup release automation using the tag above

cd /builds/release   # or /cygdrive/X/builds/release
cvs -nq up -r RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M8_1
# check for merges (M) or conflicts (C); if any found, check for local changes
cvs -q up -r RELEASE_AUTOMATION_M8_1
cd configs
cvs up -A     # in case we need to make changes later
cd ..
rm bootstrap.cfg logs
ln -s configs/tb-moz18-bootstrap.cfg bootstrap.cfg
mkdir -p old-logs/logs.tb20013/rc1
ln -s old-logs/logs.tb20013/rc1 logs

make test

Some machines don't have the perl module Config::General so comment out

use Config::General;

at the top of Bootstrap/Step/PatcherConfig.pm. Only need this on prometheus-vm anyway, which has it.

Tag

On production-1.8-master in /builds/release:

./release -o Tag 2>&1 | tee logs/release-Tag-RC1.log

Forgot to revert version in mozilla/config/milestone.txt and tags in mozilla/client.mk, so Tagging failed. Committed this fix to the relbranch, removed /builds/tags/THUNDERBIRD_2_0_0_13_RC1/, and moved the logs to log/first-taggging-attempt.

Source

On production-1.8-master in /builds/release:

./release -o Source 2>&1 | tee logs/release-Source-RC1.log

Build

On each tinderbox, cd to /builds/release (prefix with /cygdrive/e/ on Windows) and

./release -o TinderConfig 2>&1 | tee logs/release-TinderConfig.log
./release -o Build 2>&1 | tee logs/release-Build.log

Needed to comment out lines 43-49 of Build.pm on Windows t'box, since Cygwin complains "Permissied denied" trying to execute those lines. The disks are already mounted in binmode.

ssh key issues: nightly builds ers converted to tbirdbld, releases still use cltbld (*pulls hair*). On each box,

• shut down tinderbox builds
• acquire cltbld key and install ~/.ssh
• update CVS/Root in
  • /builds/tinderbox/mozilla/tools/tinderbox
  • /builds/tinderbox/Tb-Mozilla1.8-Release/tinderbox-configs

After the build is done, reverse the changes in ~/.ssh and mozilla/tools/tinderbox. (bm-xserve02 uses ffxbld, others use tbirdbld)

Had ssh_key definitions in the tinderbox-configs, using the tbirdbld key with the cltbld account, so the first attempt at en-US hung at a password prompt. Fixed and restarted.

Repack

On the tinderboxes in the table above, do the ssh key changes as in Build, then

./release -o Repack -e 2>&1 | tee logs/release-Repack-Execute.log
./release -o Repack -p 2>&1 | tee logs/release-Repack-Push.log
./release -o Repack -a 2>&1 | tee logs/release-Repack-Announce.log

After win32 l10n, had to set cerberus-vm back to text mode

mount -t -sc /cygdrive

so that tinderbox would run. This box was very slow, taking 7 hours to complete the repack.

Undo the ssh changes like Build when they are done.