#10321 NORM 10.1.2: Software update misrepresents the URL it uses for activities and versions

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#10321: Software update misrepresents the URL it uses for activities and versions
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 Reporter:  skierpage  |                 Owner:  dsd          
     Type:  defect     |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal     |             Milestone:  10.1.2       
Component:  sugar      |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:             |           Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0          |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:             |              Blocking:               
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 Both My Settings > Software update and `sugar-control-panel -g
 available_updates` misrepresent the URL they're using to figure out what
 activities and versions to update.  They both print "Fetching
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1..." even though that usually
 *isn't* the web page they retrieve and use.  As I understand it from
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update#Activity_groups , they use the
 first URL matching the activity group plus build, full release, major
 release, or no suffix.

 To reproduce, in Software update set your Activity group in "Modify
 activity groups" to "http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1" if it
 wasn't this already.  Then in 8.2.1 or 10.1.2 do a software update.  It'll
 display "Fetching http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1..." but the
 list of activities and versions it updates is ''not'' this URL, but
 something like Activities/G1G1/10.1 or Activities/G1G1/758 (see
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Special:PrefixIndex/Activities/G1G1/ , that set
 of 9 possibilities is part of the problem!)

 The fix is for /usr/share/sugar/extensions/cpsection/updater/model.py to
 print the actual URL it's using (the activity group URL usually followed
 by a build number, major, or minor release).  Unfortunately that's handled
 by bitfrost internals so this is not an easy fix.

 It appears that the "Modify activity group" expanding section in the UI
 displays information from the actual URL it uses.  So the workaround (that
 should be fixed in any case) is to give each subpage of
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/ very descriptive microformat
 information that Software updater will display, see
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_microformat .  But that info only
 appears after the Fetching... display and if you expand.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10321>
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