Re: status bars during base download
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:31:27PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:14:44PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Would be nice to finish that off -- right now, it's very annoying
> > debug spam. If we can't get it done, we should at least not show the
> > raw output (XXX YYY ...) on the screen, flashing on and off...
>
> 1. I havn't checked how it looks on serial console yet (should be
> much better as there will be less screen redrawing)
Tried to do that on hppa, but my 2.4.7 kernel seems broken atm
for serial console on this particular box.
> 2. The progress bar hits 100% after download completes, and then
> sits there while the extracting/configuring phase runs, which
> looks a little odd.
On a CD install, on a slow system, extracting/installing essential/
base packages takes much longer than retrieving, so the progress
bar sits at 100% most of the time. Tough.
> 3. Progress bar doesn't move very smoothly, mainly because libc6
> is so much bigger than other pkgs.
> 4. It's a shame the text with filename doesn't fit on one line,
> might be worth triming the 'Retrieving' lines somehow so we get
> "Retreiving ...foo/bar/wiz/thingy_3.4.5_ia64.deb"
In the case of a Retrieving... or Extracting... message, I've forced
the filename to always start on the second line, even if it would
fit on the first. That stops the text jumping round too much.
> 5. Maybe wants 'EB_RESET call to reinitialise things for when you
> restart the download after a failure.
Done.
I'll commit this in a few minutes. Am about to go on holiday for
two weeks, so if it breaks, you get to keep the pieces.
I have tested on ia64 and hppa with graphical consoles, with CD
and http based installs.
Richard
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