Firefox Win recipe versions

[patgmac]

Is it possible to get the version from the Firefox-Win and FirefoxESR-Win download recipes?

[hansen-m]

Mozilla changed the structure of their downloads page not long ago and at the time I didn't see an easy way to scrape it from the page. Normally when downloading the link via a browser the filename would reflect the version number but URLDownloader and CURLDownloader default to naming the file to the tail end of the url, which wouldn't work in this case. Not sure if there are any options to use the filename given by the headers (I think that is how it works)?

I can share parts of my internal .bigfix recipes but essentially what I do is use my Shared Processor to extract the exe using 7z and then use the BESRelevanceProvider (works outside of BigFix) to read the version from a file and string pattern inside the exe. I'm planning on moving the BESRelevanceProvider over as a Shared Processor, if that is something you'd be interested in using. Otherwise I'm open to suggestions.

[patgmac]

7z and BESRelevanceProvider is currently how you're handling Chrome, correct?

[hansen-m]

Yep, very similar method.

https://github.com/autopkg/hansen-m-recipes/blob/master/Google/GoogleChrome-Win.download.recipe#L33

I've added the BESRelevanceProvider to the SharedRecipes.

https://github.com/autopkg/hansen-m-recipes/blob/master/SharedProcessors/BESRelevanceProvider.py

If you need it I'd be happy to share snippets from my Firefox-Win .bigfix recipes, or even consider move the version processor steps over to the download recipe. I know having the non-standard processors with the extra dependencies have caused some confusion, so not sure what the best approach will be going forward.

[patgmac]

Having the version in the download recipe would be great. My ultimate goal is to make a lanrev recipe that uses your download recipe as a parent and adds the %version% to the file name.

[hansen-m]

Sure, I'll try to get those updated early next week. Getting the version added to the filename should be easy enough with the Copier processor (I do something similar to copy out to a file share), but couldn't you just use the %version% variable in your LANRev child recipe?

[patgmac]

Yes, if %version% is determined in a parent recipe. I do this with Chrome recipes. https://github.com/autopkg/patgmac-recipes/blob/master/Google%20Chrome/GoogleChrome-Win32.LANrev.recipe

[jgstew]

Glad to see others making use of windows AutoPkg recipes.

[hansen-m]

Try this https://github.com/autopkg/hansen-m-recipes/commit/83a852b039ffa97593bf2c1c2468e14e2365c29d

[patgmac]

Works good. Thanks!