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  • Committer: Michael Terry
  • Date: 2012-05-15 19:43:43 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 2428.
  • Revision ID: michael.terry@canonical.com-20120515194343-tocvo0awttmggie1
update several strings to match the software updater spec; most notably, rename from Update Manager to Software Updater

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UpdateManager/Core/utils.py
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  p.stdout.close()
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  return dist
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def get_dist_description():
 
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  " return the description of the current runing distro "
 
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  # support debug overwrite
 
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  desc = os.environ.get("META_RELEASE_FAKE_DESCRIPTION")
 
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  if desc:
 
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      logging.warn("using fake release description '%s' (because of META_RELEASE_FAKE_DESCRIPTION environment) " % dist)
 
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      return desc
 
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  # then check the real one
 
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  from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
 
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  p = Popen(["lsb_release","-d","-s"],stdout=PIPE)
 
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  res = p.wait()
 
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  if res != 0:
 
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    sys.stderr.write("lsb_release returned exitcode: %i\n" % res)
 
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    return "unknown distribution"
 
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  desc = p.stdout.readline().strip()
 
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  p.stdout.close()
 
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  return desc
 
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class HeadRequest(Request):
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    def get_method(self):
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        return "HEAD"