clone 178988 -1 retitle -1 shows multiple versions of packages reassign 178988 cdebconf-udeb thanks
Please don't report multiple bugs in one bug report. On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:11:25AM +0200, era eriksson wrote: > I'm only just acquainting myself with the sarge installer CD which was > announced in this week's DWN. Sorry if I'm reporting a bug against the > wrong package; I am under the impression that anna is responsible for > the actual prompts I see (and the bugs reported against it/her seem to > confirm this) but I only just started to try to understand the new > installer and I apologize if I have jumped to incorrect conclusions. This should be fixed in cdebconf, since it is actually showing the list. > When I get to Load installer modules (fetch from CD), I am presented > with a listing of 40 entries. This is impossible to view because the > screen is only 24 lines and each entry takes up at least one line. For the moment, you can work around this by using Shift-PageUp and Shift-PageDown. > There seem to be duplicates which only differ in their minor version > number, could they be collapsed to one entry somehow perhaps? (Also it > would be nice if these were adjacent in the listing so it's easier to > spot the duplicates, if you can't collapse them into one entry, that > is.) This is a bug in anna. > The lack of a more(1) or similar makes it challenging to look at > what's on the system -- I have been doing sed -n 1,24p etc on files > that look interesting but if I happen to look at a binary file, > chances are it will shift the console's character set into graphics > mode and then I will have to reboot in order to proceed (or drive > blind, which is of course also an alternative). You don't have to reboot; type echo ^V<ESC>c with ^V and <ESC> standing for the obvious keys. > I guess I'll file a > wishlist bug about this. ...against busybox-udeb. Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
