F9 installation screenshot

Arindam Ghosh makghosh at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 11:23:31 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Mary Ellen Foster <foster at in.tum.de> wrote:
> 2008/4/29 Amitakhya Phukan <aphukan.fedora at gmail.com>:
>
> >  i managed to take a screenshot while updating my F8 to F9 rawhide. i chose
>  > "upgrade existing installation". everything was smooth. but there was this
>  > progress bar movement that really surprised me. it said it had to update 915
>  > packages. at 496 packages, isn't it more than 50% complete ? the progress
>  > bar however is at far less than 50%. is that expected behaviour ? why ??
>
>  I think that progress bar shows the % of the *size* that's been
>  installed, not the *number* of packages. Watch when you install
>  something big like openoffice -- the bar jumps a lot after that
>  installation's been completed.
>

+1 for that...but i would like to suggest that while installation is
being done we should have an ETA out there. This would be really cool
:)

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