Re: Debian Installer, ia64 status update

[Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:12:18PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> I'm using the newt frontend, which looks pretty good, except for some
> package names running off the edge of the screen during base install.
> Maybe the frontend code could cut down the start of the filepath,
> keeping the first word of the line intact, so it looks like:
> 
>            Retrieving: ...ebian/pool/main/f/foobar_1.2_ia64.deb
> 
> Frotend-specific, of course, because the frontend is the bit that knows
> how wide the window is.

There is code in CVS to wrap long progress bar information.

-- 
Matt