Bug 41102: Compress firefox source tarball in a container

Merge Info

Related Issues

• #41102 (closed)

Backporting

Timeline

• Immediate: patchset needed as soon as possible
• Next Minor Stable Release: patchset that needs to be verified in nightly before backport
• Eventually: patchset that needs to be verified in alpha before backport
• No Backport (preferred): patchset for the next major stable

(Optional) Justification

• Emergency security update: patchset fixes CVEs, 0-days, etc
• Censorship event: patchset enables censorship circumvention
• Critical bug-fix: patchset fixes a bug in core-functionality
• Consistency: patchset which would make development easier if it were in both the alpha and release branches; developer tools, build system changes, etc
• Sponsor required: patchset required for sponsor
• Other: please explain - fix reproducibility issue

Issue Tracking

• Link resolved issues with appropriate Release Prep issue for changelog generation

Review

Request Reviewer

• Request review from an applications developer depending on modified system:
  • NOTE: if the MR modifies multiple areas, please /cc all the relevant reviewers (since gitlab only allows 1 reviewer)
  • accessibility : henry
  • android : clairehurst, dan
  • build system : boklm
  • extensions : ma1
  • firefox internals (XUL/JS/XPCOM) : ma1
  • fonts : pierov
  • frontend (implementation) : henry
  • frontend (review) : donuts, richard
  • localization : henry, pierov
  • macos : clairehurst, dan
  • nightly builds : boklm
  • rebases/release-prep : boklm, dan, ma1, pierov, richard
  • security : ma1
  • signing : boklm, richard
  • updater : pierov
  • misc/other : pierov, richard

Change Description

As the xz version on the host can be different and produce different
output, we compress the firefox source tarball inside a container.

At the same time we use xz's --threads option to make compression
faster by using multiple threads.

We also move the src-tarballs step definition from rbm.conf to
projects/firefox/config since it's not used in any other project.

How Tested

Ran make torbrowser-nightly-src and checked that it uses the same container as macos builds.

I also ran make torbrowser-nightly-macos to check that it still builds (as it is using firefox source tarball during the build).