Re: fixing the base-installer progress bars

2004-01-01 Thread Joey Hess
> Famous last words. I think I'm about 50% of the way there currently. .. 100%. Although I have not done anything about kernel-installer yet. Does anyone know of a good reason for kernel-installer to remain a separate udeb and menu item? I would like to merge it into the base-installer postinst u

Re: fixing the base-installer progress bars

2003-12-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:23:31AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Appendix A: The debootstrap --debian-installer progress stream. > The stream consists of a number of lines. Each line is of the form: > CODE: arg1 [arg2 .. argn] Format is: x: xA: xF: where x is E, W or I for

Re: fixing the base-installer progress bars

2003-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
Me: > for after beta 2. If nobody does, I will probably work on it after the > beta is out. Famous last words. I think I'm about 50% of the way there currently. Of course it changes far too many strings to go into beta 2. I have also changed run-debootstrap to log the debootstrap stderr and stdou

fixing the base-installer progress bars

2003-12-31 Thread Joey Hess
I guess we can all agree that base-installer's endless series of progress bars could use improvement.. I don't have time to work on this right now, but I know one way to more or less fix them. I applied the same technique to hw-detect to change it from using two progress bars to just one; it was t