Bug#626599: Use --no-triggers by default and let dpkg find out the configuration order
Hi,
On Fri, 13 May 2011, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Fri, 13 May 2011, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> > Further more it breaks applications listening on the hooks (apt-listbugs comes
> > to mind) as most of they act on scheduled 'Conf' messages -- which doesn't
> > exist if APT doesn't plan them obviously. Could be fixed maybe with looking at
> > 'Inst', but i am not sure why they are looking for 'Conf' in the first place…
>
> What hook is that ? Or is that simply analyzing the output of the
> upgrade plan ?
Note that such packages could switch to use a dpkg hook --pre-invoke or
--post-invoke, or even --status-logger.
As far as progress reporting is broken, why can't apt make an estimate
based on the number of packages that dpkg already configured ? After all
you get live information from dpkg about what it's doing.
Any way, coming back to the suggestion, I believe it's time for APT to
change its default here, even for wheezy (see related discussion in
#680626). On the dpkg side, we implemented most of the possible
improvements already (interest-noawait and the fix you requested).
Cheers,
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