commit 1de6d966381efa6b3e5ce5cf06295597171be6c1 Author: Georg Koppen gk@torproject.org Date: Wed Aug 26 10:21:37 2020 +0000
Bug 40055: Add documentation for Glean offline dependency update --- projects/common/how-to-update-glean-parser.txt | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)
diff --git a/projects/common/how-to-update-glean-parser.txt b/projects/common/how-to-update-glean-parser.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a125f5f --- /dev/null +++ b/projects/common/how-to-update-glean-parser.txt @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +In order to be able to do offline builds for mobile we need to collect and +distribute Glean dependencies beforehand.[1] + +There are three steps involved in the process: + 1) Finding out the `glean_parser` version + 2) Downloading and verifying the dependencies + 3) Bundling the dependencies up and pushing them to the sources mirror + +1) + +The `glean_parser` version is available in glean-core/python/setup.py in the +Glean code repositoroy.[2] So, make sure which Glean version your +`android-components` tag is using (`mozilla_glean` in +buildSrc/src/main/java/Dependencies.kt has it) and then track `glean_parser` +down in the respective Glean tag. + +2) + +Create a directory `glean-wheels` and change into it. Then download packages for +`glean_parser` and its dependencies using + +`python3 -m pip download glean_parser==$glean_parser` + +($glean_parser being the version from step 1 above and Python 3 needs to be 3.6; +ideally, we take the artifact we built and will use during the build later on as +well.) + +There is no really good way (yet) to verify that `pip` gave us actually what we +wanted. We can download `glean_parser` and its dependencies using a different +network path, though, e.g. by using `torsocks`. Comparing the results of both +downloads should yield the exact same binaries. + +3) + +Update the `glean_parser` version in `rbm.conf, tar `glean-wheels` up and +compress it: + +`tar cfj glean-wheels-$glean_parser.tar.bz2 glean-wheels` + +Upload the compressed tarball to the sources mirror and update the SHA-256 sum of +it in the respective projects. + +[1] See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651662 for details. +[2] https://github.com/mozilla/glean
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