Jason Gunthorpe wrote: >On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Peter Maydell wrote: >> It looks to me as if the start point of the count is correct for >> each package (hence dropping down to ~80% or whatever) but the >> end point is miscalculated so it's 100% rather than what it ought >> to be at the end of the package. > >APT does not pre-estimate the sizes of the package files, so until they >begin to download their size is effectively '0' giving the rather odd >estimate of progress.
Hmm. I'm a bit dubious about your just closing this bug. I think that if you can't do the overall-percentage accurately you should disable it altogether rather than provide odd and misleading information. Peter Maydell
