Anaconda suggestion...

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Thu Oct 21 19:37:35 UTC 2010


>    So I'm in the process of upgrading (using preupgrade) from F13 to 
> F14, something I typically do around the RC phase,  anyway, that's 
> beside the point. All the packages have been installed, but I'm at the 
> point where I get "Finishing upgrade process. This may take a little 
> while" and a 'progress indicator' on crack. It flies around quickly back 
> and forth for a bit, pauses, then flies around some more. Here's my 
> suggestion. It would be great if this dialog could be a little more 
> specific about what it is doing. I'm guessing that since I'm doing an 
> upgrade this box is running all the post-update scripts and as such 
> can't give a proper progressbar as it doesn't know how long it will 
> take. That's fine. However its been running for nearly as long as it 
> took to 'install' the 2089 packages that got upgraded/installed. If it 
> is doing the cleanup/post upgrade package script thing, even just doing 
> something similar to PK where it shows which package is doing what. I 
> don't know if it is feasible, but it would be nice to know what is going 
> on...

Yeah, that whole area is not at all ideal.  I'm aware of it:

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493249

Perhaps I'll spend some time around F15 figuring out what we can do.

- Chris


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