On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 13:54:24 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > When the output of package installations are logged to a file, the > progress counter updates while reading the database are distracting. > > This is especially the case in Debian Installer where multiple package > installations are started and all are logged to the syslog. For an > example of the result, see the syslog attached in [1]. > > Another example is buildd logs, for example [2]. > As far as I can tell, progress_step() isn't supposed to do anything if stdout isn't a tty. I'd expect that to be the case for buildd logs, at least (don't know how this is handled by d-i).
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