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Bug#696123: partman-base: need progress wrapper for non-libparted-based filesystem operations



On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 00:11 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
[...]
> Rather than the Sisyphean task of giving all the appropriate utilities
> machine-parseable progress interface, I instead suggest that we study
> the current progress interfaces and try to identify some common factors
> that can be parsed heuristically (e.g. solid bar of characters;
> "\-/|"-style spinner; percentage output), and write a wrapper utility
> that can translate some of the common ones into debconf progress output.
[...]

I have trouble believing that this is going to be easier than patching
the most common utilities to add an option for a machine-readable
progress indicator.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Life is like a sewer:
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

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