Bug#492861: Progress bar rewinds when running pre-pkgsel.d/10popcon
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
>> One solution to solve this would be to change the API of pre-pkgsel.d
>> scripts. They could have the current progress step as their
>> command-line argument and echo the standard output the new progress
>> step.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to use a fixed range for pre-pkgsel scripts and
> divide that up over the number of scripts being run? It could even be
> coded so that the more hook scripts there are, the bigger the part of the
> progress bar that's allocated to them (still leaving the majority for
> tasksel of course).
I think this way is more flexible. Even more if we add the blacklist
support I've proposed to Jeremy.
> I don't really like the idea of hook scripts determining how the main
> script works.
Could you clarify why?
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