Update.1 activities download script

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Mar 14, 2008, at 17:15 , Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Hi Scott, and all,
>
> I made a script that downloads and installs or upgrades the official
> activities for Update.1 from the repository at:
>
> http://mock.laptop.org/repos/local.update1/XOS/Dictionary-1.xo

I meant

http://mock.laptop.org/repos/local.update1/XOS/index.html

of course ...

- Bert -

> The script is available at
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py
>
> and it makes testing these activities on build 700 rather simple.
>
> Usage: update-activities.py [options] [ACTIVITIES]
>
> If no ACTIVITIES are listed, operate on all activities
>
> Options:
>   -h, --help      show this help message and exit
>   -u, --upgrade   upgrade installed activities [default]
>   -i, --install   install non-installed activities
>   -d, --download  only download, do not actually install or upgrade
>   -l, --list      only list, do not actually install or upgrade
>
> To save download time, do something like this first:
>
> cp -a /usr/share/activities/*.activity /home/olpc/Activities
>
> I also noticed problems with some of the .xo bundles, see
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6696
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6697
>
> And finally, there is a trick in the script so it connects to the
> current Sugar session even if run from the console or via ssh - may be
> useful to somebody:
>
> if not 'SUGAR_PREFIX' in os.environ:
>   """Connect to running Sugar session"""
>   cp = ConfigParser()
>   cp.read(env.get_profile_path('session.info'))
>   os.environ['DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS'] = cp.get('Session',
> 'dbus_address')
>   dbus.set_default_main_loop(dbus.mainloop.NULL_MAIN_LOOP)
>
> - Bert -
>
>
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