On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 23:29:27 +0000 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + pending > > > Hi Antonio, > > 2016-03-02 14:38 Antonio Ospite: > >Package: aptitude > >Version: 0.7.7-1 > >Severity: normal > > > >Dear Maintainer, > > > >apt has this handy feature of showing a progress bar when installing > >packages, see [1]. > > > >AFAIK the feature is enabled by default in recent apt versions but has > >to be enabled explicitly as described in [1] to work with apt-get and > >other programs: > > > > $ sudo sh -c "echo 'Dpkg::Progress-Fancy \"1\";' > > > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99progressbar" > > > >This used to work with aptitude too. > > > >I verified that after the command above aptitude on Jessie (0.6.11-1+b1) > >shows the fancy progress bar on the terminal when installing packages. > > > >However, the progress bar does not seem to show anymore with recent > >aptitude versions (0.7.5, 0.7.6 or 0.7.7 as confirmed by mafm on IRC). > > > >Any idea about what may have made it stop working? > > This will work again now. > > It happened a few versions ago because of adapting aptitude for changes > in apt 1.1 (deprecated function), and using only one type of progress > which the old function uses internally. > Thanks Manuel, I can see the fix at: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/aptitude/aptitude.git/commit/?id=f4742858515a75b94db8448f2723cfafc77721cd Ciao ciao, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
