Hi, Jonathan. On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Jonathan Marsden <[email protected]> wrote: > I just pushed an improved install-pkgs.sh script to the Lubuntu branch. > > Changes include: > > * Use set -e to exit when an error occurs.
Does this interfere with the "try_this_command || handle_the_error" parts of the script? > * Add notice that installing packages may take a long time. Good idea. > * Sort and remove duplicates from package list. That's fine, though it's unnecessary as apt-get will take care of that for us. > * Display package list before downloading and installing packages. Good idea. I haven't looked at your script code yet, but you could just allow the output from apt-get to be displayed on the screen so the user can see the download/install progress, too. > * Allow use of Ubuntu texlive packages in 13.04 as well as 12.10 Cool. Hopefully the updated Ubuntu packages will continue to work for us in the future. I admit that I'm a bit jaded at this point and have almost given up on them as we seem to always hit some problem or another. > These changes are based on real world experience helping Lubuntu folks > use the script (via my lubuntu-manual-dev.sh script). The intent was to > make it clearer that something has gone wrong (e.g. do not display > > Done! You should now be able to compile the Ubuntu manual! > > when that is not the case), and to provide more information about what > is happening during the downloading and installation of the (sometimes > large) package set, so that users do not think their machine has "frozen". I agree with both those points. > I'm very happy for this to go into the Ubuntu Manual branch too, none of > the changes are Lubuntu-specific in any way. I just thought I'd let > Kevin review my changes and make the choice for himself, since this is > his script :) I'll take a look at your modifications and pull them across. Thanks for your work on this script! —Kevin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
