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and subject line Re: aptitude: Please clear the screen before installing
has caused the Debian Bug report #289071,
regarding endwin doesn't do what it should (maybe PuTTY related?)
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.15.8-1
Severity: normal
Upgrading with aptitude interactive mode, with a nonempty xterm,
causes aptitude messages to be overwriting whatever happened to be in
the xterm before.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable'), (9, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10Y
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.27 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-1 Type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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Hi all,
2005-02-07 18:58 Steven Grimm:
This is 100% reproducible for me. I've never seen it not happen.
I filled my window with "x" characters (yes | head) then ran aptitude
and installed a package. Not only does it overwrite what was on the
screen before, it even changes the text color! Screenshot at
http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/debian/289071.png -- the shot is from
a WinXP box logged into a Debian sarge system using the PuTTY ssh
client, but the same thing happens on the local machine using an xterm
or Konsole. This isn't too obnoxious if your window happens to be
filled with "x" characters, but if it's full of actual commands and
their output, it can make the aptitude output very difficult to read.
I'd be happier if aptitude put the cursor at the bottom of the window
before installing, rather than clearing the screen; that way when I
quite aptitude I can scroll back in the window if I want to see what
was there before I ran aptitude. But clearing the screen would be
better than the current behavior.
I cannot reproduce this behaviour, admittedly with putty from Debian to
Debian.
But given that the report hasn't been any update/seconding/etc in more
than a decade, I think that it's reasonable to assume that this has been
fixed somehow by one of the parties involved, or fixing their
interactions.
Please reopen if you can still see this problem.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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