Once we can do nightly win32 repacks on Win64 machines (bug 784848), we should port those changes to the release repack script.

Reading over the patches from bug 784848, it looks like we have to: * use an objdir * call make.py instead of make when building nsinstall * stop building mar tools and download them instead * switch the l10n_slaves for beta, release, esr17 Need to make sure to test this explicitly for firefox and thunderbird Coop, does this need to ride the trains at all? Will it even work on esr17?

(In reply to Ben Hearsum [:bhearsum] from comment #1) > Reading over the patches from bug 784848, it looks like we have to: > * use an objdir > * call make.py instead of make when building nsinstall > * stop building mar tools and download them instead > * switch the l10n_slaves for beta, release, esr17 > > Need to make sure to test this explicitly for firefox and thunderbird > > Coop, does this need to ride the trains at all? Will it even work on esr17? All of the above should work for beta & release. ESR17 probably won't be able to use pymake, but it would be worth trying to see if it could. We can continue setting makeCmd=make there as long as required. The in-tree build config changes required for this are already in beta, and in a few weeks will make it onto release. The l10n-mozconfig files on beta and release will require some tweaking to fix the --with-l10n-base location to be branch-specific (see bug 852553 for the planned fix). Once the in-tree l10n-mozconfigs are fixed, we should be able to switch both beta & release in one go anytime after Firefox 20 is released, i.e. the build config changes currently on mozilla-beta are merged into mozilla-release.

OK, we should skip ESR17 then. Relevant code for the required changes is: https://github.com/mozilla/build-tools/blob/master/scripts/l10n/create-release-repacks.py https://github.com/mozilla/build-tools/blob/master/lib/python/build/l10n.py#L47

bug 740142 is getting some work, which will move desktop Firefox repacks to mozharness. Once that's done for nightly + release builds, we get this for free. Leaving open for now though.

We don't have an exact timeline yet, but bug 740142 *is* going to happen. There's no point in adjusting the old scripts now.