Bug#185424: base-config: Should display progress bar while installing packages

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:55:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:24:51PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > I put some code into apt that should make it possible to get usefull
> > install progress reports. It's in
> > michael.vogt@ubuntu.com--2005/apt--progress-reporting--0  [1]
> > 
> > If the apt options: "APT::Status-Fd" is set, apt will send status
> > reports to that fd. The status fd reports have the following format:
> > 
> > status:pkgname:TotalPercentage:action-description
> 
> 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.

It's merged into mainline as of today, and will be in 0.6.40.

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 - mdz