#565243 cdrom-retriever: No progress bar movement when fetching packages

Package:
pkgsel
Source:
pkgsel
Submitter:
Petter Reinholdtsen
Date:
2010-01-14 10:00:09 UTC
Severity:
minor
#565243#5
Date:
2010-01-14 05:35:24 UTC
From:
To:
Package:  cdrom-retriever
Version:  1.18
Severity: minor
User:     debian-edu@lists.debian.org
UserTags: debian-edu

When installing Debian Edu using the DVD media, the package
installation progress bar is stuck on 14% for a while as the packages
are fetched from the DVD, while when installing using the netinst
media, the package installation progress bar move slowly forward as
the packages are fetched from CD and the selected package mirror.

Would it be possible to get the DVD installation to behave more like
the network installation, where the progress bar move forward while
packages are fetched.  Even if all packages are local, it take a while
to process 1300 packages and it would be nice if this caused some
visible progress on the progress bar.

Happy hacking,
#565243#10
Date:
2010-01-14 09:57:56 UTC
From:
To:
reassign 565243 pkgsel 0.24
thanks

I doubt that this is something that can be fixed in Debian Installer. The
display of the progress bar at that stage is not determined by the
retriever udebs (the retrievers are used for loading *udebs*, not for
regular packages), but by APT.

Probably the difference is that with DVD based installs there simply isn't
a "download" phase and thus APT does not provide "download" progress info.

So you'll need to look at APT instead of D-I if you want this improved.

Cheers,
FJP