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[19.03] firefox/wrapper: Set new style override for legacy profiles & allow downgrades #68050

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@andir andir commented Sep 4, 2019

Motivation for this change

While Firefox 68 started messing with our profiles and required new
profiles on binary location changes Firefox 69 now verifies that we
aren't downgrading to an older Firefox even of the same version. If you
switch between two channel versions and/or between nixpkgs releases
Firefox will refuse to start and demand a fresh profile. Disabling the
downgrade protection works around that issue.

Things done
  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nix-review --run "nix-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.
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…owngrades

While Firefox 68 started messing with our profiles and required new
profiles on binary location changes Firefox 69 now verifies that we
aren't downgrading to an older Firefox even of the same version. If you
switch between two channel versions and/or between nixpkgs releases
Firefox will refuse to start and demand a fresh profile. Disabling the
downgrade protection works around that issue.
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andir commented Sep 4, 2019

Tested locally by switching between 19.03 and #67924. Merging this straight into the branch so nobody is surprised with an empty Firefox profile on the next channel bump.

@andir andir merged commit d4e9ae3 into NixOS:release-19.03 Sep 4, 2019
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