One thing to test heavily would be background updates which rely somewhat on the structure of these files abd directories...
Cheers, Ehsan On Aug 12, 2014 1:05 PM, "Ben Hearsum" <bhear...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Apple recently announced changes to how OS X applications must be packaged > and signed ( > https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40007919-CH1-TNTAG205) > in order for them to function correctly on OS X 10.9.5 and 10.10. The tl;dr > version of this is "only mach-O binaries may live in .app/Contents/MacOS, > and signing must be done on 10.9 or later". Without any changes, future > versions of Firefox will cease to function out-of-the-box on OS X 10.9.5 > and 10.10. We do not have a release date for either of these OS X versions > yet. > > Changes required: > * Move all non-mach-O files out of .app/Contents/MacOS. Most of these will > move to .app/Contents/Resources, but files that could legitimately change > at runtime (eg: everything in defaults/) will move to .app/MozResources > (which can be modified without breaking the signature): > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=1046906&hide_resolved=1. > This work is in progress, but no patches are ready yet. > * Add new features to the client side update code to allow partner repacks > to continue to work. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1048921 > ) > * Create and use 10.9 signing servers for these new-style apps. We still > need to use our existing 10.6 signing servers for any builds without these > changes. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1046749 and > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1049595) > * Update signing server code to support new v2 signatures. > > Timeline: > We are intending to ship the required changes with Gecko 34, which ships > on November 25th, 2014. The changes required are very invasive, and we > don't feel that they can be safely backported to any earlier version > quickly enough without major risk of regressions. We are still looking at > whether or not we'll backport to ESR 31. To this end, we've asked that > Apple whitelist Firefox and Thunderbird versions that will not have the > necessary changes in them. We're still working with them to confirm whether > or not this can happen. > > This has been cross posted a few places - please send all follow-ups to > the mozilla.dev.platform newsgroup. > > - Ben > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
