Bug#636912: file backend sometimes runs without progress output
Package: apt
Version: 0.8.15.5
Severity: normal
When I configure some file:// urls and they contain some hundreds of
packages to updates, then in one of three-four times I see a plain
[Working] line from apt-get. No progress visible, i.e. no percentage but
the "file" process is very active. I can strace it, it looks like:
read(0, "600 URI Acquire\nURI: file:/tmp/aptfs/pool/main/m/mapnik/libmapnik0.7_0.7.1-6_amd64.deb\nFilename: /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/libmapnik0.7_0.7.1-6_amd64.deb\n\n", 64000) = 161
stat("/tmp/aptfs/pool/main/m/mapnik/libmapnik0.7_0.7.1-6_amd64.deb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1025934, ...}) = 0
open("/tmp/aptfs/pool/main/m/mapnik/libmapnik0.7_0.7.1-6_amd64.deb", O_RDONLY) = 3
fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
...
<dozens of read calls>
...
write(1, "201 URI Done\nURI: file:/tmp/aptfs/pool/main/m/mapnik/libmapnik0.7_0.7.1-6_amd64.deb\nFilename: /tmp/aptfs/pool/main/m/mapnik/libmapnik0.7_0.7.1-6_amd64.deb\nSize: 1025934\nLast-Modified: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:50:03 GMT\nMD5-Hash: e2ba83b8812b79097871227944e23940\nMD5Sum-Hash: e2ba83b8812b79097871227944e23940\nSHA1-Hash: 407a4f803c0d41a3e17c3dc8e8907b42642a2fd8\nSHA256-Hash: 99a60f844ae6f2b119c5658b4b1ac20ac6faf95b69b9c726668bd593be2e2bcf\n\n", 434) = 434
close(3)
That is okay and looks reasonable but PLEASE display the progress.
Sometimes it works, and sometimes it looks like it gets stuck for
minutes (because of the slow filesystem where it reads from).
Regards,
Eduard.
-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2010.08.28 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii gnupg 1.4.11-3 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.6.0-14 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.6.0-14 GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
ii apt-doc 0.8.14.1 Documentation for APT
ii aptitude 0.6.4-1 terminal-based package manager (te
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.8.0 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii synaptic 0.75.2 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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