bts tag 233129 d-i thanks Daniel Burrows wrote: > I'm currently busy working on other parts of the program. If you want > this in a hurry your best bet is to either send a working patch to a bug > report or (if such a patch already exists) to harass me via email until > I apply it. :-) Preferably all such harassment should be conducted via > emails sent to bug reports so that it gets archived with the bug and > filtered into my debbugs folder.
Please consider yourself harrassed. :-) In d-i, we've implemented everything we need to get a nice progress bar during the system's initial update of the Packages files from the mirror. Except that apt doesn't send progress info for apt-get update over the status-fd interface (#448908). Happily aptitude does send such progress info over that interface, but since it doesn't propigate download failures, lack of which would utterly break d-i, we can't switch to using aptitude there. (FWIW, #282408 is no longer on the d-i code path due to other changes, and if #445035 were fixed, it might break tasksel in some situations (though I'm sure I could deal with that).) -- see shy jo
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