[Testing] Software update problems in OLPC 10.1.3

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On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org> wrote:
>> == Misleading output ==
>> I note again that the URL that Software update claims that it's
>> checking is wrong.  It says "Fetching
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1Lite" but it's actually
>> fetching something like
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1Lite/10.1.3 . I already filed
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10321
> This actually is known; the updater actually uses this URL as a base and
> first tries adding "/10.1.3" then "/10.1" then "/10" then finally just
> the URL itself to see if there are any version-specific pages.

I know, I rewrote http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update trying to
better explain the process! :-)  That doesn't change the fact that the
message is extremely confusing, because there is a web page with the
base URL in the message, but Software update usually does NOT it.

One odd thing I notice is during Software update my /tmp contains two
temp HTML files, titled
 Activities/G1G1 - OLPC and Activities/G1G1Lite/10.1.3 - OLPC.  And
the first of those points to Help-10.xo as the latest.  According to
our understanding, Software update should only be pulling down one of
those.  Hmm, maybe one of the other activities I have installed
mentions the wrong update URL, or points to a garbled copy of the
entire G1G1 Activites, or something, and then (randomly?) Software
update uses the old or the new list. The interaction of an activity's
own update_url and the activity group isn't explained, despite my
efforts ;-)

Cheers, thanks for your response.
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