Bug#565243: cdrom-retriever: No progress bar movement when fetching packages

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

reassign 565243 pkgsel 0.24
thanks

On Thursday 14 January 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Would it be possible to get the DVD installation to behave more like
> the network installation, where the progress bar move forward while
> packages are fetched.  Even if all packages are local, it take a while
> to process 1300 packages and it would be nice if this caused some
> visible progress on the progress bar.

I doubt that this is something that can be fixed in Debian Installer. The 
display of the progress bar at that stage is not determined by the 
retriever udebs (the retrievers are used for loading *udebs*, not for 
regular packages), but by APT.

Probably the difference is that with DVD based installs there simply isn't 
a "download" phase and thus APT does not provide "download" progress info.

So you'll need to look at APT instead of D-I if you want this improved.

Cheers,
FJP