Re: Slow redraws in the debootstrap stage
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> during the "install base system" step in d-i, i.e. while debootstrap
> is running, there is one annoying effect. The newt frontend redraws
> the whole status box (the progress bar and the text about which file
> is retrieved respective validated currently) very often (i.e. twice
> for each package in many cases). This is caused by the fact that the
> "retrieving"-lines are longer than the "validating"-lines and so they
> wrap into the next line, which causes the newt frontend to redraw a
> larger bounding box. When the next file is retrieved, the line is
> shorter again, so a smaller bounding box is redrawn again. The
> redrawing itself first overwrites the whole bounding box with the blue
> background and then overwrites the blue background again with a new
> bounding box.
Please see bug #213669. :-)
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