On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:41:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:55:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: [..] > > 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 added the needed support to apt (in my apt--progress-reporting--0 branch) as part of the pkgAcquireStatus::Pulse() code. It should work with aptitude without modifications. It adds a new "dlstatus" that will report the current download status: ------------------------8<------------------------ dlstatus:AlreadDownloaded:TotalPercentage:action-description AlreadyDownloaded = the number of already downloaded packages TotalPercentage = the total progress between [0..100] description = a i18ned human readable decription of the current action Example: dlstatus:1:9.05654:Downloading file 1 of 3 (4m40s remaining) dlstatus:1:9.46357:Downloading file 1 of 3 (4m39s remaining) dlstatus:1:9.61022:Downloading file 1 of 3 (4m38s remaining) ------------------------8<------------------------ (the old "status" is renamed to "pmstatus" to make it easier to distinguish). Feedback is (as always) welcome. Please note that the patch breaks the ABI. Cheers, Michael -- Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question. - Neo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
