X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/7230ad48a5c7766281c824c7373ecc8900e25995..ae2a6be8a2155c136f9535abfbcc750c8c395cd2:/README.progress-reporting?ds=inline diff --git a/README.progress-reporting b/README.progress-reporting index b575e7879..5d9b581c5 100644 --- a/README.progress-reporting +++ b/README.progress-reporting @@ -2,17 +2,17 @@ Install-progress reporting -------------------------- If the apt options: "APT::Status-Fd" is set, apt will send status -reports to that fd. The status information is seperated with a ':', +reports to that fd. The status information is separated with a ':', there are the following status conditions: status = {"pmstatus", "dlstatus", "conffile-prompt", "error", "media-change" } The reason for using a fd instead of a OpProgress class is that many -apt frontend fork a (vte) terminal for the actual installation. +apt front-end fork a (vte) terminal for the actual installation. The reason to do the mapping and l10n of the dpkg states to human readable (and translatable) strings is that this way the translation -needs to be done only once for all frontends. +needs to be done only once for all front-ends. pmstatus