joomla/joomla-cms — pull request #720 by nicksavov (2013-02-15 10:54:53+00:00)
Title: Added a update mechanism for the Update component

See:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/joomla-dev-cms/2iuCF8bsA44/Nkec8TAKFV0J

The above code would allow us to have a fallback option to update the Joomla! Update component in case something goes drastically wrong with it. Currently, there is not an xml at ttp://update.joomla.org/core/extensions/joomla/com_joomlaupdate.xml , but it's not needed since this would only be used on an as needed basis.