post install typo

[Matthew Thomas]

Jay Camp wrote:
 >
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:55 -0600, Carl Karsten wrote:
> > 
> > Just did the first half of hoary install from CD, ejected, reboot, it 
> > wants the CD, and has some "typos" or something: "Need to get 0B/16.2kB 
> > of archives."  0B?
>
> There's nothing abnormal about this.  It means just what it says.  The
> install package is 16.2 kB and it already has all of it cached locally,
> so it needs to download 0 B.  In other words it copied the package from
> the CD so it's already cached locally on the hard drive and doesn't need
> to fetch it.
>...

If it looks like a bug and quacks like a bug, the text should perhaps be 
special-cased to say something like "The necessary archive has been 
found on your computer".

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Matthew Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/