Auto-updating broken with new deb systems

[jeffkaufman]

Ubuntu 16.10 and the forthcoming Debian 9 have a change that breaks our auto-updating. Chrome ran into the same bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663069 and has a patch: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/389af6af989c5ba5384988b55fc28a3f231a1479%5E%21/#F0

This is more serious for Chrome than mod_pagespeed because Debian 9 is still unstable, and people usually don't use non-LTS Ubuntu for servers, but it's still pretty urgent. We probably need to put out a patch release for this.

[jeffkaufman]

We may be able to fix this by modifying the existing packages without a full rebuild, since it's a packaging issue and not a code issue.

[jeffkaufman]

This is now fixed on master but still needs to get released, and since it's a packaging issue I want to keep the bug open.

I've modified our existing packages in-place to make three changes:

• Change r0 to r1 in the filename and in control.tar.gz:./control:Version
• Add required slashes to control.tar.gz:./postinst:find_apt_sources
• Add required slashes to control.tar.gz:./postrm:find_apt_sources

Next step is to spin up VMs to test these, which I'm planning to do tomorrow morning.

If that goes well I'll plan to sign the packages, and push them out first thing monday morning.

[jeffkaufman]

Modifying the package in place means the version we compiled-in is wrong. I'm going to stop messing with this and just build packages the right way, building a debian-only patch release 1.11.33.5

[jeffkaufman]

I've built the first round of packages (64-bit debs) and am testing them. I've set up four VMs:

• ubuntu 16.04 vs 16.10
• upgrade vs plain

On the upgrade ones I'm going to first install 1.11.33.4 and then 1.11.33.5, while on the plain ones I'll just install 1.11.33.5.

[jeffkaufman]

Installing 1.11.33.4 on 16.04 and 16.10, I see mod-pagespeed.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d on 16.04 but not on 16.10. When I run sudo apt-get update I see 16.04 checking with http://dl.google.com/linux/mod-pagespeed/deb and 16.10 not.

So: bug reproduced.

[jeffkaufman]

After installing 1.11.33.5 on all four VMs, all four show mod-pagespeed.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, and all four check with http://dl.google.com/linux/mod-pagespeed/deb on sudo apt-get update

So: bug confirmed fixed by 1.11.33.5

[jeffkaufman]

(For future reference, I'm seeing build_release_platform.sh take 35 minutes. I'm running things serially on the ubuntu-12 buildbot, but after @hillsp finishes his changes we'll be able to run them in parallel, each on its own vm.)

[jeffkaufman]

Packages are built and signed. Planning to push them out monday morning to avoid releasing on a friday afternoon.

[jeffkaufman]

1.11.33.5 is released and announced; closing this.