[Bug 330656] Re: manual package selection displays dpkg output
Daniel Hartwig
330656 at bugs.launchpad.net
Sat Mar 17 08:14:33 UTC 2012
> 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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