Re: Bug#59194: apt-get update overall % not correct
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>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.
Hmm. I'm a bit dubious about your just closing this bug. I think
that if you can't do the overall-percentage accurately you should
disable it altogether rather than provide odd and misleading information.
Peter Maydell
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