Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.3-1 Severity: wishlist Once you issue aptitude update you get a precentage which intends to gives you an already done work estimation.
This percentage reaches very soon to 98-99%, while there's a lot of files to download and most of work hasn't been done yet. For example in my case(see attached sources.list): sudo aptitude update Ign file: apt-build Release.gpg Des:1 file: apt-build Release [89B] Ign file: apt-build/main Packages Des:2 http://ftp.rediris.es testing Release.gpg [378B] 98% [Conectando a ftp.rediris.es (130.206.1.5)] [Conectando a www.debian-multimedia.org (213.186.33.16)] [Esperando las cabeceras] [Conectando a scratchbox.o Please improve this progress estimation based on (i.e.) the file size of the already downloaded or the downloaded size in last execution for the files yet to download or whatever other method you think is better. For example: if you still have to download the main binary packages list for unstable take the size of: /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.rediris.es_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages as a reference. I hope I have explained properly, but if not feel free to ask. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18p4s Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3. 0.6.46.4 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-19 GCC support library ii libncursesw5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-19 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information
deb file:/var/cache/apt-build/repository apt-build main deb http://ftp.rediris.es/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.rediris.es/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib #mplayer deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main #Compilador cruzado deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian testing main deb http://scratchbox.org/debian/ ./
