commit e511d5692568aa8b41a7c277d01216a3a2322bb4 Author: Nicolas Vigier boklm@torproject.org Date: Thu Jan 28 19:25:37 2021 +0100

Bug 40220: Improve tools/update-responses/README.md --- tools/update-responses/README.md | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/update-responses/README.md b/tools/update-responses/README.md index 8326983..605047a 100644 --- a/tools/update-responses/README.md +++ b/tools/update-responses/README.md @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ Tor Browser Update Responses script ===================================

-This repository contains a script to generate responses for Tor Browser -updater. +This directory contains a script to generate xml update responses and +incremental mar files for the Tor Browser updater.

-See ticket [#12622](https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12622) +See ticket [#12622](https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/issues/12622) for details.

@@ -34,15 +34,36 @@ On Red Hat / Fedora you can install them with: ```

+Running the script +------------------ + +We usually don't run the script directly. Instead we run one of the +following make commands: + + - make update_responses-alpha or make update_responses-release to + generate update responses files for an alpha or stable release. + + - make incrementals-alpha or make incrementals-release to generate + incremental mar files for an alpha or stable release. + + - make dmg2mar-alpha or make dmg2mar-release to generate updated mar + files for the macOS bundles, from their dmg files, for an alpha or + stable release. + +In addition to running the script, those make commands will generate +the configuration file for the script, in tools/update-responses/config.yml, +from a template in projects/release/update_responses_config.yml. + + URL Format ----------

-The URL format is: +The generated update responses files expect the following URL format: https://something/$channel/$build_target/$tb_version/$lang?force=1

-'build_target' is the OS for which the browser was built. The correspo -ndance between the build target and the OS name that we use in archive -files is defined in the config.yml file. +'build_target' is the OS for which the browser was built. The +correspondance between the build target and the OS name that we use in +archive files is defined in the config.yml file.

'tb_version' is the Tor Browser version.