On Sunday 17 July 2005 13:28, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Package fetching is done by reprepro and turning it more verbose gives > some more messages but not a download progress for files. > > The package fetching is also going to be done by a cron job normaly. > Unless it gets an error it should not say anything (in the finished > package). I will think about something for the initial install but my > current plan is to have it create an empty archive and start the cron > job once manualy in the background. > > So, having an interactive (i.e. with download progress) update script > is not a high priority just now. Later, for people that don't want the > cron job, maybe. But the reprepro maintainer has to provide support > for that.
How well will this work? For instance, I do not really want to maintain a chroot. The one app I sometimes miss is wine. Do you think this can be supported with the new package arch? TIA, Ed Tomlinson