Mozdownload should support downloading the unbranded versions of Firefox for extension testing

[Standard8]

For Hello's functional tests, I was using mozdownload to get Firefox for testing. Now I currently need unbranded builds, it seems I can no longer use mozdownload. I don't have a strict case for myself moving fownard, however, it might be useful for other add-on developers if mozdownload could be extended to support the unbranded versions of Firefox as well.

[whimboo]

@Standard8 where can those files be found?

[Standard8]

If you look at this page:

https://tools.taskcluster.net/index/artifacts/#gecko.v2.mozilla-beta.latest.firefox/gecko.v2.mozilla-beta.latest.firefox.macosx64-add-on-devel

Especially the get requests, then you can get the information for the latest artifacts.

Unfortunately that's the best / only method available according to releng.

[whimboo]

Unfortunately we do not support downloads from taskcluster yet. See issue #365. So this issue is blocked.

[freaktechnik]

I've solved this problem in get-firefox. It does something similar to this program, however is a little bit more high-level to my understanding and is written in js.

Using the official taskcluster-client package it takes three calls, including downloading the file to get the file. You have to know two things: the namespace of the task (gecko.v2.mozilla-release.latest.firefox,win64-add-on-devel for example) and the corresponding file ending for the actual file you want (I look for .installer.exe on windows builds), as I don't know taskcluster knows the difference between multiple artifacts.

[whimboo]

Taskcluster is unaware of file types. You would have to filter the retrieved artifacts on your own.

For more discussions about the taskcluster topic I would suggest we move to issue #365.

[whimboo]

The website which lists the unbranded builds can be found here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded_Builds

As listed there the builds can also be found on archive.mozilla.org e.g. for release on Linux64:
http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-release-linux64-add-on-devel/

As of now we only have a simple --debug option (flag), but that would need to be changed to eg. --build-option debug. With that we would get support builds like debug, asan, add-on-devel.

[myrdd]

I'd highly appreciate this feature.

[whimboo]

Looks like we are not dependent on the taskcluster implementation. So it's not blocked. If someone wants to work on it, I'm happy to mentor.

[m-agboola]

Hi @whimboo I'm new here and would like to work on this under your mentorship. Where do I start from?

[whimboo]

As listed there the builds can also be found on archive.mozilla.org e.g. for release on Linux64:
http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-release-linux64-add-on-devel/

I just had a look at archive.mozilla.org and it looks like we no longer upload the builds there. It means that these are really only available through TaskCluster via:

https://tools.taskcluster.net/index/gecko.v2.mozilla-beta.latest.firefox

It means that this issue is really blocked on issue #365 now.