Update.1 activities download script

[Ixo X oxI]

FYI,
Chris,
  To also help make the 'official' Activity Pack(s) (or bundled activities,
or whatever final terminology), I've tried to start a 'clear and written'
list of such mentioned Activities.

  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/G1G1_bundled_activities

with a similar vein of thought, started another brainstorm.... for a main
deployment coming up
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Peru_bundled_activities

This pattern could continue for each deployment... countries....  specific
target users... etc...

And I wonder in the future, 'xo-get' script could auto-magically key off
these pages to create a useful tool like...
   # xo-get upgrade G1G1_activity_pack
(i.e.   # xo -get  upgrade [DeploymentName]_activity_pack)

which would just take the latest list from the wiki page
  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/[DeploymentName]_activity_pack<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/%5BDeploymentName%5D_activity_pack>

Both of the first two pages I listed above, has already gotten some great
updates by several people, and recent revisions answer a lot of questions, I
had on what is or is not included in those deployments.

:-)  Take a gander yourself, and offer your thoughts....
Thanks,  -Ixo


On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Chris Hager <chris at linuxuser.at> wrote:

> I've implemented the upgrade script now -- on the next "xo-get update"
> it will ask to update to version 1.2.5 and then it's capable of "xo-get
> upgrade".
>
> When called, it will re-download the upgrade script from
> http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/update-activities.py<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ebert/update-activities.py>all 48 hours, save it
> in ~/.xo_get/update-activities.py, and run it without parameters.
>
> Best,  - Chris
>
>
> Chris Hager wrote:
> > I'm just about implementing the script into xo-get, and I was thinking
> > on how to do it. Either simply integrating it into xo-get.py (xo-get is
> > a 1-file script), or download it on an 'xo-get upgrade' if it's not
> > available. This might be smarter, so changes in the upgrade script can
> > be made without changing xo-get.
> >
> >
> > Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> >
> >> To save download time, do something like this first:
> >> cp -a /usr/share/activities/*.activity /home/olpc/Activities
> >
> > Maybe only make symlinks?
> >
> >   ln -s /usr/share/activities/*.activity /home/olpc/Activities/
> >
> >
> >  Chris
>
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