Bug#448908: Has it been fixed?

Please keep in mind that I'm not actually a sysadmin just a developer attempting to do some bash shell scripting to create an installation script for our application. So if something is unclear please let me know.

Having said that, I'm having trouble reproducing the error now myself even though I ran into it repeatedly during testing previously. I started from a stock standard Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit server install that is using the default install settings. The aim is then that my script can be run to install all necessary packages and configure the system so that our application is installed correctly (its a Rails application plus extras).

The script is using whiptail (rather than dialog) and I'm using 'sudo apt-get operation' as my way of handling packages and I'm using this in conjunction with debconf-apt-progress to track operations. I was having trouble with 'sudo apt-get update' but as I said I can't reproduce that bug now myself, although there are some things with whiptail I've noticed that don't work quite the same when comparing them in the regular terminal vs when I ssh in with gnome terminal (for example a documented bug with the whiptail infobox).

On 21 October 2013 21:52, David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Richard Eagleton <reagleton@magian.com> wrote:
> This bug is still in Ubuntu 12.04 and I was wondering if its been fixed yet?
> There is a workaround available by using aptitude but as this is not part of
> a standard install now and apt-get is regarded as the preferred method of
> installation, it would be better if this be fixed so that tools like
> debconf-apt-progress work correctly with it.

I presume yes as I can't reproduce it in debian/sid and in a fresh precise
chroot + universe + dialog (from the former) I see no progress from both…
[but the behavior of debconf-apt-progress seems to have changed since precise]

Some details on what you mean and how you reproduce it exactly might help.

Best regards

David Kalnischkies

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