[Server-devel] automatic OS updates from school server

[Daniel Drake]

In my opinion one of the bigger holes left in the school server is the
fact that we can't push OS updates to the XOs. And the team here in La
Rioja keep asking about it,

Actually the hard work is all done (XS has updates server, XO has
update client, both work well), the only missing bit is a section in
the OATS server implementation which actually tells the XOs about the
updates.

And I already did most of the work, anyone interested in continuing?
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-October/004261.html
The conclusions from that thread is that MyConfigParser can probably
be reimplemented as a trivial ConfigParser subclass (diff it against
Python's copy, it's a trivial change IIRC) or we could switch to the
external iniparse module.

Daniel