Debian Bug report logs - #244563
Please make "Installing base packages" progress more granual

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Please make "Installing base packages" progress more granual

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:15:16 +0100

Package: debootstrap
Version: 0.2.31
Severity: wishlist

I'm surprised that no bug has been filed about this already.  In
debian-installer, it stays for minutes (on a slow machine) at 70%
"Installing base packages..."  When it verifies and unpacks packages,
it gives good progres, but not when installin the base packages.
Please show which packages are being installed.

Thanks.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

Message #10 received at 244563@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>

To: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>, 244563@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#244563: Please make "Installing base packages" progress more granual

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:47:41 +1000

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On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:15:16AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> I'm surprised that no bug has been filed about this already.  In
> debian-installer, it stays for minutes (on a slow machine) at 70%
> "Installing base packages..."  When it verifies and unpacks packages,
> it gives good progres, but not when installin the base packages.
> Please show which packages are being installed.

I'm not sure this is possible without better support in dpkg for progress
bars. Maybe --status-fd could somehow be used, but I don't think I see
how -- there's no way to tell what percentage you're at 'til you're
finished I think.

So I don't think it's possible to get this info from dpkg. If I'm wrong,
prove it, and it'll get implemented. :)

Cheers,
aj

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Message #17 received at 229314-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>

To: 229314-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#261530: debootstrap - builds ide, usb, lp and rtc devices on s390

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:09:53 +1000

> debootstrap generates ide, usb, lp and rtc devices on s390 which have no
> support for any of this devices.

Yes, it does. If and when makedev offers an appropriate per-arch target,
it'll use that; in the meantime having more device files than necessary
isn't a bug. Report closed with this message.

Cheers,
aj

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Message #24 received at 244563@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 244563@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#244563: Please make "Installing base packages" progress more granual

Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 17:58:32 +0100

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:47:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:15:16AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > I'm surprised that no bug has been filed about this already.  In
> > debian-installer, it stays for minutes (on a slow machine) at 70%
> > "Installing base packages..."  When it verifies and unpacks packages,
> > it gives good progres, but not when installin the base packages.
> > Please show which packages are being installed.
> 
> I'm not sure this is possible without better support in dpkg for progress
> bars. Maybe --status-fd could somehow be used, but I don't think I see
> how -- there's no way to tell what percentage you're at 'til you're
> finished I think.
> 
> So I don't think it's possible to get this info from dpkg. If I'm wrong,
> prove it, and it'll get implemented. :)

Here's the patch we used to implement this in Ubuntu. The file
descriptor handling is a bit messy as far as the script API goes; each
script has to know to use fds 7 and 8. Apart from that, it works well.

This might not want to get applied before sarge - or at least would
require careful coordination - since it introduces new waypoints and so
requires a base-installer change too.

Sorry for the delay in sending this on.

  http://patches.ubuntulinux.org/patches/debootstrap.244563.diff

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

Message #29 received at 244563@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: 244563@bugs.debian.org

Cc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#244563: Please make "Installing base packages" progress more granual

Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:45:17 +0100

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:58:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:47:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:15:16AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > I'm surprised that no bug has been filed about this already.  In
> > > debian-installer, it stays for minutes (on a slow machine) at 70%
> > > "Installing base packages..."  When it verifies and unpacks packages,
> > > it gives good progres, but not when installin the base packages.
> > > Please show which packages are being installed.
> > 
> > I'm not sure this is possible without better support in dpkg for progress
> > bars. Maybe --status-fd could somehow be used, but I don't think I see
> > how -- there's no way to tell what percentage you're at 'til you're
> > finished I think.
> > 
> > So I don't think it's possible to get this info from dpkg. If I'm wrong,
> > prove it, and it'll get implemented. :)
> 
> Here's the patch we used to implement this in Ubuntu. The file
> descriptor handling is a bit messy as far as the script API goes; each
> script has to know to use fds 7 and 8. Apart from that, it works well.
> 
> This might not want to get applied before sarge - or at least would
> require careful coordination - since it introduces new waypoints and so
> requires a base-installer change too.
> 
> Sorry for the delay in sending this on.
> 
>   http://patches.ubuntulinux.org/patches/debootstrap.244563.diff

I've modified base-installer now to be able to cope with both the
existing debootstrap --debian-installer output and that produced by this
patch. Perhaps this could be part of the upload introducing etch?

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

Message #34 received at 229314-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>

To: 229314-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#229314: fixed in debootstrap 0.3.1

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:02:27 -0400

Source: debootstrap
Source-Version: 0.3.1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debootstrap, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

debootstrap-udeb_0.3.1_i386.udeb
  to pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap-udeb_0.3.1_i386.udeb
debootstrap_0.3.1.dsc
  to pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.3.1.dsc
debootstrap_0.3.1.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.3.1.tar.gz
debootstrap_0.3.1_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.3.1_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 229314@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> (supplier of updated debootstrap package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:22:55 +1000
Source: debootstrap
Binary: debootstrap-udeb debootstrap
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 0.3.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
Changed-By: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
Description: 
 debootstrap - Bootstrap a basic Debian system
 debootstrap-udeb - Bootstrap the Debian system (udeb)
Closes: 88984 122465 131552 193134 229314 231109 244563 313383
Changes: 
 debootstrap (0.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * sid script updated:
     - Determine base dynamically (Priority: required for required packages,
       Priority: important for base packages, Build-Essential: yes for buildd
       variant base). (Closes: Bug#88984, Bug#193134)
     - Use fine grained dpkg progress display, thanks again to Colin Watson.
       (Closes: Bug#229314, Bug#231109, Bug#244563)
 .
   * dpkg output (etc) goes to /var/log/bootstrap.log in the target, rather
     than stdout. This is probably difficult for frontends to capture
     at present.
 .
   * Parsing of Packages file sped up. (Yay!)
 .
   * debootstrap.deb now arch: all (Closes: Bug#122465, Bug#131552)
     - perl implementation of pkgdetails used by preference
     - devices.tar.gz reduced to minimal set of devices; frontends should
       setup udev or supply their own devices or similar in future
     - /usr/lib/debootstrap/arch not shipped
     - none of the above applies to udebs yet; though the devices.tar.gz
       change will eventually
 .
   * Support for verifying based on Release.gpg files (--keyring). Thanks
     to Colin Watson. (Closes: Bug#313383)
Files: 
 67fe34603f916b068328a43ea307bc2b 600 admin - debootstrap_0.3.1.dsc
 af3295b21eca76c07a91cb23a9b85474 44137 admin - debootstrap_0.3.1.tar.gz
 3aa4644988c6fc61806fa47b06c8bca6 48704 debian-installer required debootstrap-udeb_0.3.1_i386.udeb
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Message #35 received at 244563-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>

To: 244563-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#244563: fixed in debootstrap 0.3.1

Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:02:27 -0400

Source: debootstrap
Source-Version: 0.3.1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debootstrap, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

debootstrap-udeb_0.3.1_i386.udeb
  to pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap-udeb_0.3.1_i386.udeb
debootstrap_0.3.1.dsc
  to pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.3.1.dsc
debootstrap_0.3.1.tar.gz
  to pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.3.1.tar.gz
debootstrap_0.3.1_all.deb
  to pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_0.3.1_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 244563@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> (supplier of updated debootstrap package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Hash: SHA1

Format: 1.7
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:22:55 +1000
Source: debootstrap
Binary: debootstrap-udeb debootstrap
Architecture: source all i386
Version: 0.3.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>
Changed-By: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
Description: 
 debootstrap - Bootstrap a basic Debian system
 debootstrap-udeb - Bootstrap the Debian system (udeb)
Closes: 88984 122465 131552 193134 229314 231109 244563 313383
Changes: 
 debootstrap (0.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * sid script updated:
     - Determine base dynamically (Priority: required for required packages,
       Priority: important for base packages, Build-Essential: yes for buildd
       variant base). (Closes: Bug#88984, Bug#193134)
     - Use fine grained dpkg progress display, thanks again to Colin Watson.
       (Closes: Bug#229314, Bug#231109, Bug#244563)
 .
   * dpkg output (etc) goes to /var/log/bootstrap.log in the target, rather
     than stdout. This is probably difficult for frontends to capture
     at present.
 .
   * Parsing of Packages file sped up. (Yay!)
 .
   * debootstrap.deb now arch: all (Closes: Bug#122465, Bug#131552)
     - perl implementation of pkgdetails used by preference
     - devices.tar.gz reduced to minimal set of devices; frontends should
       setup udev or supply their own devices or similar in future
     - /usr/lib/debootstrap/arch not shipped
     - none of the above applies to udebs yet; though the devices.tar.gz
       change will eventually
 .
   * Support for verifying based on Release.gpg files (--keyring). Thanks
     to Colin Watson. (Closes: Bug#313383)
Files: 
 67fe34603f916b068328a43ea307bc2b 600 admin - debootstrap_0.3.1.dsc
 af3295b21eca76c07a91cb23a9b85474 44137 admin - debootstrap_0.3.1.tar.gz
 3aa4644988c6fc61806fa47b06c8bca6 48704 debian-installer required debootstrap-udeb_0.3.1_i386.udeb
 b481cd5274c77d36988beec3936b6175 39994 admin extra debootstrap_0.3.1_all.deb

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