Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 1 Aug 1997 07:37:51 +0000 Received: (qmail 14720 invoked from network); 1 Aug 1997 07:37:51 -0000 Received: from infws7.informatik.uni-halle.de (141.48.9.8) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 1 Aug 1997 07:37:50 -0000 Received: from infws7 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by infws7.informatik.uni-halle.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA27095 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:37:36 +0200 (MET DST) Sender: schroede@infws7.informatik.uni-halle.de Message-ID: <33E1923F.2E5E@helios.informatik.uni-halle.de> Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 09:37:35 +0200 From: Alexander Schroeder Organization: MLU Halle-Wittenberg X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: several runs needed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Package: dpkg Version: current (1.3.1 CD ROM) If you install a new system from scratch, there are often several runs needed to complete all initialisation tasks. This may be because the dpkg tool installs all these packages in a alphabetical order. So, for example, if the needed shared libray does not exist, configuration will fail mysteriously. If this behaviour is not changeable (I think it is, it will need some flow analysis), perhaps you could add a message e.g. "200 of 333 selected packages sucessfully installed". Even this will help the user so he/she knows that he/she have to go through the install section several times.