Newsgroup Summary 1

Back to Mozilla.dev.builds

!!! Still in progress !!!

Summary: mozilla.dev.builds - September 25th to October 1st 2006

• Peter Weilbacher posted a question and asked: How does one go about creating a .mar package that can be used in updating Firefox and Thunderbird? He has already tried achieving the changed files but unfortunately this does not work with a static build because the .exe files change every time.

• Nick Thomas, who's IRC nickname is (CF), responded to Peter's question. The solutions that he gave him are the following:

1. Know the scripts in update-packaging. Specifically make_incremental_update.sh
2. Change the settings in the .mozconfig file. Add these TWO options into the file:
   I. mk_add_options MOZ_CO_MODULE="mozilla/tools/update-packaging"
   II. ac_add_options --enable-update-packaging
3. The script needs "mar" (to make the update file) and "mbsdiff" (to generate a binary diff).
4. Read about installing a MAR file for software updates.
5. For toolkit apps use the Update component combined with a http server that provides the mars and update info.
6. Other useful links regarding software updates:
   I. Software Update Information
   II. About the nightly updates for Firefox & Thunderbird use patcher
   III. Generate partials and AUS to serve the information to the apps.
   IV. To figure out how the whole system fits together read the nightly update infrastructure