synaptic with progress bar while installing

[Michael Vogt]

Dear Friends,


I would like to ask for some testing for the new "progress bar when
dpkg is running" feature of synaptic. A repository can be found at:

deb http:/people.ubuntulinux.org/~mvo/synaptic/progress-bar /

(screenshot at:
http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mvo/synaptic-progress-bar.png) 

It contains patched apt and dpkg versions and a patched synaptic. You
need to unset "Apply changes in terminal window" in
"Settings/Preferences". It will set the debconf frontend to gnome, so
make sure that libgnome2-perl is installed. It should calculate the
progress pretty accurate. It will report errors that happend during
the installation and can prompt for config file changes (it can't do
diffs yet, this is planed with additonal support for external tools
like meld).

Problems:
- Configure tools like apt-listchanges or apt-listbugs to not use the
  terminal directly but open a new xterm/browser.
- synaptic will hang on applications that use read in maintainer
  scripts. It can't detect that and will hang with a message like
  "configuring $packagename". 

I'm interessted in any problems (crashes, incorrect progress
calculation, packages that ask questions in postinst etc). 


thanks,
 Michael
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