Package: apt
Version: 1.4
Severity: wishlist
I have unattended-upgrades enabled, with the report emailed to me. I
also have Unattended-Upgrade::MinimalSteps enabled, which means apt is
run many times for each unattended-upgrades run. Each run of apt within
the unattended-upgrades report prints a 22-line dpkg progress
indicator. The progress indicator multiplied by each apt run gives many
many lines of output to wade through. It would be great if apt would
make dpkg only print the first half of last line before starting to
read and the 2nd half of the last line after the database is read.
AFAICT, this is caused by apt's Dpkg::Use-Pty config option defaulting
to true, instead of checking if stdout is a terminal and only turning
the option on if it is.
(Reading database ...
(Reading database ... 5%
(Reading database ... 10%
(Reading database ... 15%
(Reading database ... 20%
(Reading database ... 25%
(Reading database ... 30%
(Reading database ... 35%
(Reading database ... 40%
(Reading database ... 45%
(Reading database ... 50%
(Reading database ... 55%
(Reading database ... 60%
(Reading database ... 65%
(Reading database ... 70%
(Reading database ... 75%
(Reading database ... 80%
(Reading database ... 85%
(Reading database ... 90%
(Reading database ... 95%
(Reading database ... 100%
(Reading database ... 123456 files and directories currently installed.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (860,
'testing-proposed-updates'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790,
'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690,
'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.115
ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3
ii gpgv2.1.18-6
ii init-system-helpers 1.47
ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4
ii libc6 2.24-9
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-12
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-12
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii gnupg 2.1.18-6
ii gnupg1 1.4.21-2
ii gnupg2 2.1.18-6
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc
ii aptitude0.8.6-1
ii dpkg-dev1.18.23
ii powermgmt-base 1.31+nmu1
ii python-apt 1.4.0~beta2
-- no debconf information
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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