[Bug 330656] Re: manual package selection displays dpkg output

[Daniel Hartwig]

> My
> current idea is that we could do this by running 'aptitude --schedule-only'
> via the terminal plugin,

To clarify, '--schedule-only' is only intended for command-line actions.
It has no effect on the interactive mode, you are better to just run
'aptitude' and not deceive yourself about the (non-)effects of the
argument.

Is this package selection option still available for tasksel (i.e. is
this bug still relevent)?

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Title:
  manual package selection displays dpkg output

Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “tasksel” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “aptitude” source package in Jaunty:
  Won't Fix
Status in “tasksel” source package in Jaunty:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: tasksel

  The new system for allowing manual package selection by way of
  aptitude has one major flaw: it displays dpkg output directly rather
  than hiding it behind a progress bar.

  This is not quite as trivial to fix as one might hope. aptitude is run
  from the cdebconf-newt-terminal plugin rather than as a direct child
  process of tasksel, and so it's kind of tricky to get progress
  information back out. My current idea is that we could do this by
  running 'aptitude --schedule-only' via the terminal plugin, and then
  running 'aptitude install' within debconf-apt-progress in the usual
  way so that we get a progress bar. Support for this all seems to be
  basically there, but we ought to remove the "Download/Install/Remove
  Pkgs" option from aptitude's UI when running in this mode; if people
  use this then it will still display dpkg output directly.

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