Releases/Thunderbird 3.0a3:BuildNotes

Previous Builds

Build1 - The first dry-run
Build2 - The first build, missing 1 patch

Notes

This is Build3, the second run at Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha3

Build Engineer

Philippe M. Chiasson <gozer@mozillamessaging.com>

Bugs

Tracking bug filed as bug 457709

Revisions

comm-central: 504bc8871087 r=Standard8
mozilla-central: 73738a5e3731 r=Standard8
dom-inspector: a69148785a33
buildbot-configs: 87374e3f8d8e r=gozer
cvs trunk as of 2008-10-02 23:59 PDT r=Standard8

Clones

Decided it would be simpler and safer to clone mozilla-central and comm-central for the purpose of rolling the builds, and leaving us with somewhere to apply fixes if we need to respin. Here is what I did

$> ssh hg.mozilla.org clone mozilla-central-tb-3-0a3
[... picked mozilla-central to clone from ...]
Proceed? 1
Please do not interrupt this operation.
Cloning /mozilla-central to /users/gozer_mozillamessaging.com/mozilla-central-tb-3-0a3
Clone complete.
Clone complete.
Fixing permissions

$> ssh hg.mozilla.org clone comm-central-tb-3-0a3
Proceed? 1
Please do not interrupt this operation.
Cloning /comm-central to /users/gozer_mozillamessaging.com/comm-central-tb-3-0a3
Clone complete.
Clone complete.
Fixing permissions

The new clones can be reached here:

• comm-central-tb-3-0a3
• mozilla-central-tb-3-0a3

Cloning Full Log

Tags

Module	Tag	Changeset
comm-central	THUNDERBIRD_3_0a3_BUILD3 THUNDERBIRD_3_0a3_RELEASE	504bc8871087
mozilla-central	THUNDERBIRD_3_0a3_BUILD3 THUNDERBIRD_3_0a3_RELEASE	73738a5e3731
dom-inspector	THUNDERBIRD_3_0a3_BUILD3 THUNDERBIRD_3_0a3_RELEASE	a69148785a33
cvs.mozilla.org: extensions/typeaheadfind, extensions/wallet	THUNDERBIRD_3_0b1_BUILD3 THUNDERBIRD_3_0a3_RELEASE	-D '2008-10-02 23:59 PDT'

Tagging

Done locally on my laptop with these tagging scripts

Generated the following changesets:

• comm-central
  • 60cde060846f
• mozilla-central
  • 8fa04ac60075
• dom-inspector
  • b010bb857298
• buildbot-config
  • c7e095766e07
  • bde2138c3e2e
  • 07931f91dca7
  • ae319becae1f

Stage

mkdir -p /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates/build3
mkdir /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates/build3/update
mkdir /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates/build3/source
mkdir /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates/build3/linux-xpi
mkdir /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates/build3/windows-xpi
mkdir /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates/build3/mac-xpi
chgrp -R thunderbird /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates
chmod -R g+ws /pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates

Source

Created a source tarball on my local (Linux) machine:

hg clone -r THUNDERBIRD_3_0a3_RELEASE http://hg.mozilla.org/users/gozer_mozillamessaging.com/comm-central-tb-3-0a3 comm-central
cd comm-central
python client.py checkout --skip-chatzilla --skip-venkman
find . -type d \( -name CVS -o -name .hg \) -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rfv
tar -cvf ../thunderbird-3.0a3-source.tar .
bzip2 -9v ../thunderbird-3.0a3-source.tar
scp ../thunderbird-3.0a3-source.tar.bz2 stage:/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/3.0a3-candidates/build2/source/

Sources