[Cupt-devel] Bug#690914: Bug#690914: cupt: during downloads please show ETA of '.delta' file, rather than '.deb' file.

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

tags 690914 + confirmed
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Hi, thank you for the report.

On 2012-10-18 22:37, A. Costa wrote:
> During an upgrade via a dialup connection:
> 
>     Get:3 debdelta:http://debdeltas.debian.net/debian-deltas  xulrunner-10.0 10.0.9esr-1 [9688KiB]
>     40% [3 xulrunner-10.0 2431KiB/9688KiB 25%] | 3258B/s | ETA: 21m4s
> 
> But 9688K is the size of the compressed '.deb' file:
[...]
> Since it's a '.delta' file that's being downloaded, the above ETA is 
> incorrect.  The correct ETA might be anywhere from 1%-70% of that.

True. This is a shortcoming in the Cupt download model.

I hope I will have time to overcome that in the Cupt 2.6.

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++ GNU/Linux userspace developer, Debian Developer