On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:55:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:24:51PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: > > I put some code into apt that should make it possible to get usefull > > install progress reports. It's in > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/apt--progress-reporting--0 [1] > > > > If the apt options: "APT::Status-Fd" is set, apt will send status > > reports to that fd. The status fd reports have the following format: > > > > status:pkgname:TotalPercentage:action-description > > I've tested this (with the accompanying one-line patch to aptitude where > it calls DoInstall()), and after a conversation with Michael in which we > fixed up some minor issues it now works fine. Having it in mainline apt > soon would be fantastic.
I've implemented a first cut at the base-config code for this (although in Ubuntu base-config which uses aptitude rather than tasksel, so it would take a small change to port it to Debian; however I've made it fairly generic so I don't expect it to be difficult), which I'm testing at the moment. There's one considerable snag though. While Michael's apt--progress-reporting--0 branch reports installation progress nicely, it doesn't report download progress at all. This is rather a showstopper for base-config on netinst installs, for instance; it just sits at 0% for ages. Is there any chance that apt could do something a bit like debootstrap, where it reports the progress through various stages (preparation?, download/retrieval, installation) in turn, and the calling code gets to munge these together into a unified progress bar if it wants to do so? > I then intend to use the debconf passthrough frontend so that I can have > a frontend displaying the progress bar but also display any debconf > questions asked by packages. This should incidentally allow both > base-config/lib/menu/pkgsel and tasksel to be substantially simplified. I've tested this and the general approach works, although unfortunately I think the simplifications I had in mind may not be possible. The new DEBCONF_DB_REPLACE feature in debconf 1.4.55 is necessary to make it work. > We need to implement support in debconf for being a passthrough UI > agent. Oops. Fortunately this shouldn't take too long. I did this in debconf 1.4.53. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
