On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:58:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:47:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:15:16AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > I'm surprised that no bug has been filed about this already. In > > > debian-installer, it stays for minutes (on a slow machine) at 70% > > > "Installing base packages..." When it verifies and unpacks packages, > > > it gives good progres, but not when installin the base packages. > > > Please show which packages are being installed. > > > > I'm not sure this is possible without better support in dpkg for progress > > bars. Maybe --status-fd could somehow be used, but I don't think I see > > how -- there's no way to tell what percentage you're at 'til you're > > finished I think. > > > > So I don't think it's possible to get this info from dpkg. If I'm wrong, > > prove it, and it'll get implemented. :) > > Here's the patch we used to implement this in Ubuntu. The file > descriptor handling is a bit messy as far as the script API goes; each > script has to know to use fds 7 and 8. Apart from that, it works well. > > This might not want to get applied before sarge - or at least would > require careful coordination - since it introduces new waypoints and so > requires a base-installer change too. > > Sorry for the delay in sending this on. > > http://patches.ubuntulinux.org/patches/debootstrap.244563.diff
I've modified base-installer now to be able to cope with both the existing debootstrap --debian-installer output and that produced by this patch. Perhaps this could be part of the upload introducing etch? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
