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Re: [PATCH] setup: Report progress correctly when amount of data is more than 2GB
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:45:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup: Report progress correctly when amount of data is more than 2GB
- References: <50F70DD1.1010007@dronecode.org.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 08:30:09PM +0000, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>
>As noted elsewhere ([1],[2]), setup does not report the overall installation
>progress correctly when the total size of packages being installed is more
>than 2GB.
>
>It seems that it is now possible to exceed that limit by asking setup to
>install everything, which downloads about 4.8 GB. (Note that this includes all
>source-only packages, and all debuginfo packages, which is possibly not what
>is usually wanted)
>
>Attached is a fairly minimal patch to fix the progress reporting.
PLEASE check this in. Thanks very much for fixing this.
cgf
P.S. 4G. Wow.