Re: Bug#59194: apt-get update overall % not correct
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> It looks to me as if the start point of the count is correct for
> each package (hence dropping down to ~80% or whatever) but the
> end point is miscalculated so it's 100% rather than what it ought
> to be at the end of the package.
APT does not pre-estimate the sizes of the package files, so until they
begin to download their size is effectively '0' giving the rather odd
estimate of progress.
Jason
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