Update.1 activities download script

[Charles Merriam]

Very nice!

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>
>  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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