Re: Getting a Tier-X for localized builds. X=1

Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, that's true, but it can be overridden via the
'en_us_binary_url' parameter to point to a specific binary.

On 21 January 2016 at 16:52, Mike Hommey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:37:22PM -0500, Chris AtLee wrote:
> > > I disagree with this. Specifically, the problem is not with the idea of
> > > repacking nightlies. That is actually sound. The problem is with the
> > > implementation. Build jobs that are independent of nightlies, starting
> > > from a possibly unrelated tree, driven by buildbot scripts (now
> > > mozharness, thankfully, aiui) that drive make scripts, which means
> > > configure must run before even knowing what the tree corresponding to
> > > the nightly is because the makefiles will tell, then update the tree,
> > > rerun configure because the tree changed, and then start running
> > > makefile contraptions replicating part of the build system to build
> > > langpacks that are then fed to the actual thing that does the repack.
> > > And that's probably a simplified view of the mess this actually is.
> > >
> > > The thing is, if the jobs started from the result of the nightly jobs,
> > > with the right tree, like, you know, test jobs do, the first part of
> > > the horror show would go away. A proper build system to build a
> > > langpack would kill another part. Then remains applying the langpack
> > > to a new build, and that part, afaik, works, mostly.
> > >
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure what you mean by this. This is how l10n repacks happen
> > generally right now* - they are triggered after nightly builds finish,
> and
> > consume the nightly builds as input.
>
> You'd think so, but they don't. If you retrigger the l10n repack job for a
> week old nightly, you'll end up with a repacked ... latest nightly.
>
>
> https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/66e07ef46853709e3fa91e7c9ad9fe6abf0d5f06/testing/mozharness/scripts/desktop_l10n.py#555,557,565-569,579
>
> The wget_en_US step downloads from
> ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/.
>
> Mike
>