On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:45:19PM -0700, Seth Nickell wrote: > But right now I'm more interested in ideas people have about allowing > dpkg to be split into a libdpkg that gives feedback as it installs and a > dpkg command-line frontend (much as the split between libapt-pkg and > apt-get happens today). This is really critical to providing the user > with feedback during the install process. Right now we get nice feedback > as the packages are downloading and during setup to some extent, but > almost no feedback while the (potentially rather long) dpkg process > itself is occurring. I just say "Installing packages", but you really > should tell the user more for such a long operation.
Um. Can't you just popen() dpkg (or apt-get) and read from it as it's running, parsing the output to decide what's happening? Just because it's a separate process should have no bearing on whether you can get feedback, unless I'm missing something quite considerable ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
