#9070 NORM Not Tri: Remove Activity information from future build.log files

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#9070: Remove Activity information from future build.log files
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 Reporter:  mchua         |                 Owner:               
     Type:  defect        |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal        |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  not assigned  |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:                |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0             |   Deployment_affected:               
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 Builds and Activities are separate. Having Activity information in
 build.log files seems to contradict this, and could lead to confusion for
 those unfamiliar with our system.

 For instance, Arjun was trying to find out what version of Measure shipped
 with G1G1 machines, and came across
 http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/767/jffs2/build.log, which
 contains text like this:

 {{{
 16:25:30 URL:http://mock.laptop.org/repos/local.8.2/XOS/Measure-17.xo
 [110428] -> "Measure-17.xo" [1]
 }}}

 One might reasonably assume that Measure v17 is included with build 767
 (and subsequently begin to worry that an incompatible/out-of-date version
 of one's Activity has shipped to thousands of donors worldwide, which
 actually happened).

 This is not the case. No version of Measure, or any other Activity, is
 included with build 767; the G1G1 image is a superset of build 767 that
 includes both that and Measure v20. The Activity-related text in build.log
 files is potentially misleading, and there isn't any reason why it should
 still be around, as far as I can tell; can we change our build scripts so
 that build.log files don't contain Activity-related information for
 subsequent builds?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9070>
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