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Merged into lp:software-center at revision 3006

software-store-developers: Pending requested 2012-05-10

Diff: 174 lines (+82/-27)

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softwarecenter/config.py (+2/-2)
softwarecenter/log.py (+3/-3)
softwarecenter/utils.py (+42/-22)
test/test_logging.py (+35/-0)

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Bug #621182: software-center crashed with OSError in makedirs()	Medium	Fix Released
Bug #743003: software-center crashed with OSError in makedirs(): [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/joris/.cache/software-center'	Medium	Fix Released

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3008. By Gary Lasker on 2012-05-11

use stat values for setting the chmod value in the unit test

3007. By Gary Lasker on 2012-05-10

make test_logging.py a little better

3006. By Gary Lasker on 2012-05-10

remove a debug statement

3005. By Gary Lasker on 2012-05-10

pyflakes and pep8 cleanup

3004. By Gary Lasker on 2012-05-10

add new unit test test_logging.py that checks the code that creates a new cache directory if a non-writeable one is detected (and moving aside the non-writeable directory), this goes back to bug 688682

3003. By Gary Lasker on 2012-05-10

probs better to use errno.EEXIST

3002. By Gary Lasker on 2012-05-10

fix the case for the .config file race, fixes bug 621182

3001. By Gary Lasker on 2012-05-08

make a general-use safe_makedirs method in utils that can be sued to avoid crashes due to races when creating new directories with os.makedirs

3000. By Gary Lasker on 2012-05-08

merge the 5.2 branch lp:software-center/5.2 to grab the current set of fixes

2999. By Gary Lasker on 2012-04-30

* lp:~mvo/software-center/whatsnew-leak-lp985389:
  - search filter fix for the case when the "installed-only"
    filter leaks into subsequent searches (LP: #985389)