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- Closes #366 and closes #304 (all sub-tasks). - Start new process group with setsid() by sending start_new_session=True - Detach from parent process fds by closing all FDs and attaching stdin, stdou and stderr to /dev/null. - Don't wait for the process to complete. - This allows for upgrading Plinth while upgrades are trigged from Plinth itself. - Show log of upgrade exection instead of output and error log of the process which can no longer be collected. This has the advantage of showing automatic executions also. - Rewrite the mechanism to detect whether upgrades can be run. It is now based on whether the package manager is busy. This has the advantage of working properly if other apt processes are running, automatic upgrades are running, etc. - Busy status works even if Plinth is restarted while upgrades are in progress. - More descriptive messages showing that upgrades don't have to be triggered manually. - Warn that other packages can't be installed while upgrades are running, which may take a long time. - Warn the users of potential temporary unavailability of Plinth/Apache2.
Plinth
Plinth - a web front end for administering FreedomBox
Description
FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal communications. It is a networking appliance designed to allow interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of protected privacy and data security. It hosts applications such as blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay on a device that can replace your Wi-Fi router so that your data stays with you.
Plinth is a web interface to administer the functions of the FreedomBox. It is extensible and provides various applications of FreedomBox as modules. Each module or application provides simplified user interface to control the underlying functionality. As FreedomBox can act as a wireless router, it is possible to configure networking from Plinth. Plinth also allows configuration of basic system parameters such as time zone, hostname and automatic upgrades.
You can find more information about Plinth on the Plinth Wiki page, the FreedomBox Wiki and the FreedomBox Manual.
Getting Started
See the INSTALL file for additional details and dependencies. To install run:
$ sudo python3 setup.py install
Run Plinth on the local system with:
$ sudo plinth
Contributing
See the HACKING file for contributing to Plinth.
Localization
