Bug#402890: aptitude: Improve progress estimation.
Control: tags -1 + wontfix Control: close -1 Hi Raúl, 2006-12-13 12:10 Raúl Sánchez Siles: 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. This estimation comes directly from APT, so we cannot do much about it. I think that during the initial phases of the download, Apt doesn't even know which files are present and can be downloaded, how big they are or how long it will take, so I don't think that it's trivial or possible to make very accurate estimations in any case. So I am going to close this as +wontfix, because since this cannot be addressed by aptitude there's not much point in keeping it open indefinitely, sorry. Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Bug#402890: aptitude: Improve progress estimation.
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. 0.6.46.4Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc62.3.6.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 2.0.17-2type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-19The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do (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/ ./
