Re: Install report

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:12:26PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > Yes, this part has always been slow, since debootstrap was invented.
> > It is running the 'pkgdetails' script for each package in Packages. I
> > looked once to see if some progress could be implemented, but it's
> > subsidiary to debootstrap itself so I couldn't figure it out.
> 
> Please see bug #210912. I haven't tested the patch (it was written when I had
> no local mirror etc. to test on), but it looks relatively simple to me, and
> should probably be easy to debug if it's wrong.
> 
> /* Steinar */

There is cdebootstrap. I think its missing some of the progress
features of debootstrap or has just incompatible output.
Afaik cdebootstrap entered sid so we can start filling wishlist bugs
against it. :)

MfG
        Goswin