Support updating the system bundle
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                 Key: FELIX-875
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-875
             Project: Felix
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Web Console
    Affects Versions: webconsole-1.2.2
            Reporter: Felix Meschberger
            Assignee: Felix Meschberger
             Fix For: webconsole-1.2.4


Currently the web console does not support updating the system bundle. A simple 
enhancement in the InstallAction class handling bundle update supports this 
update.

Background: When a bundle file is submitted for installaiton (or update) in the 
respective form on the bundle page, the web console analyses the bundle file to 
find a matching bundle to update by the symbolic name. If no matching bundle is 
found, the bundle is installed as a new bundle.

This mechanism could also be used to update the system bundle. But the symbolic 
name of the system bundle is special, since the "system.bundle" strings is not 
the required name but just an alias. To sitll support the system bundle, the 
InstallAction checker for the bundle to update should treat the strings 
"system.bundle" (the defined alias for the symbolic name) and "System Bundle" 
(the defined location for the system bundle) as indications to update the 
system bundle.

Generally, this may just restart the framework and not actually update the 
system bundle. But there may be cases, where this already helps.In addition it 
might prevent potential problems, if some administrator tries to install a 
bundle, which happens to have the respective symbolic name.

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