Firefox 24 ESR needs at least Python 2.7 and libgstreamer dev packages on the 10.04 VM

Ubuntu 10.04, which we use to build the TBB3.0 for Linux, does not ship with Python 2.7, yet Firefox ESR 24 needs it in order to get built.

added MikePerry201311R component::applications/tor bundles/installation ff24-esr owner::erinn parent::10103 priority::medium resolution::fixed status::closed tbb-3.0 type::defect labels

The two options are: add an external repository or build python from source. We should choose the second one (the Python folks have at least OpenPGP signatures for their tarballs).

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Component: - Select a component to Tor bundles/installation
Owner: N/A to erinn

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Status: new to needs_review
Summary: Firefox 24 ESR needs at least Python 2.7 on the 10.04 VM to Firefox 24 ESR needs at least Python 2.7 and libgstreamer dev packages on the 10.04 VM

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0001-Bug-9828-Building-own-Python-to-provide-Python-2.7-t.patch

There is no need to bump the mingw revision for Linux builds when building ESR 24.

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Status: needs_review to needs_revision

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0002-Bug-9828-Building-own-Python-to-provide-Python-2.7-t.patch

Patch 0001* is obsolete now.

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Status: needs_revision to needs_review

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Parent: #9827 (closed) to #10103 (closed)

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Keywords: N/A deleted, MikePerry201311R added

Ok, I merged this patch for Linux. We still need windows and mac though.

See also #10120 (closed) though. We want that eventually, so we don't have to build python 3 times for every single TBB build.

It turns out that this fix seems to cause certain PIP inputs to be downloaded from inside the gitian VM. Here's the excerpt from my Gitian VM (which I blocked access to everything but Ubuntu's update servers as an experiment):

Adding mozprofile 0.4 to easy-install.pth file
Installing mozprofile script to /home/ubuntu/build/tor-browser/obj-i686-pc-linux-gnu/_virtualenv/bin

Installed /home/ubuntu/build/tor-browser/testing/mozbase/mozprofile
Processing dependencies for mozprofile==0.4
Searching for pysqlite
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pysqlite/
Download error: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution -- Some packages may not be found!
Couldn't find index page for 'pysqlite' (maybe misspelled?)
Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while)
Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/
Download error: [Errno -3] Temporary failure in name resolution -- Some packages may not be found!
No local packages or download links found for pysqlite

Is there any way we can feed these as inputs to Gitian so they don't have to be downloaded?

Note that I noticed this on the FF17 build process, not the FF24ESR. It's also possible it's specific to FF17, and we can just ignore it?

That problem probably won't go away. I opened #10166 (closed) for it.

I pushed the mac+windows versions of this to the ff24-staging remote of ​https://git.torproject.org/user/mikeperry/tor-browser-bundle.git. Does that look OK?

Yes. Although strictly speaking there is currently no need to compile Python on Win/Mac ourselves (that's why the patch was only for Linux). But I guess it won't hurt. :) (apart from builds taking longer...)

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Resolution: N/A to fixed
Status: needs_review to closed

closed

mentioned in issue #9830 (closed)

mentioned in issue #9830 (closed)

mentioned in issue #9837 (closed)

mentioned in issue #9858 (closed)

mentioned in issue #10120 (closed)