Smart Installation status

[Anders F Björklund]

Steve Morris wrote:
> Currently smart provides a progress bar display for each package it  
> is downloading from its channels, but when it is then installing  
> those packages in Ubuntu it only shows a progress bar for the  
> entire installation. Is it possible to get individual progress bars  
> for each package being installed under Ubuntu in the same way that  
> smart displays them for rpm based distros like Mandriva?

It would be possible to have smart interpret the dpkg status pipe, to  
get more fine-grained install progress information...

It's not as detailed as the rpm progress information, especially for  
unpacking/installing files, but does say which package:

status: foo: half-installed
status: foo: unpacked
status: foo: unpacked
status: foo: unpacked
status: foo: half-configured
status: foo: installed

Those status should map to something like 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%...  
With "not-installed" being the 0% starting point that is.

--anders