[Splashy-devel] Proof of concept implementation of using lsb_end_msg

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:40:41 -0300
Otavio Salvador <otavio at debian.org> wrote:

> Tim Dijkstra <newsuser at famdijkstra.org> writes:
> 
> >> That also give time to Luis comment against it.
> >
> > I put it in branches/use-lsb_end_msg see:
> >
> > 	scripts/etc/lsb-base-logging.sh
> > 	scripts/update-progess-steps
> 
> My current worring is about scripts that doesn't support LSB
> standard. How we'll workaround them?

I wrote a bit about that in the comments in those scripts:

# It's really simple. We just count them and put them
# in alfa-numeric order. Their percentage is then just
# int( their number on the list * ( 100 / total number on list) )
#
# Of course not all packages use log_end_msg yet, but that
# doesn't matter. Splashy will then jump from 7 to 20, 30, 69, etc
# The more scripts start using it, the more granular it will become.

For Example, on my box the list of all scripts in /etc/rc2.d
and /etc/rcS.d is 91 scripts long. The list
in /lib/splashy/progress-list looks like this: 

/etc/rcS.d/S01glibc.sh 1
/etc/rcS.d/S01libnss-ldap 2
/etc/rcS.d/S01splashy-init 3
/etc/rcS.d/S02mountkernfs.sh 4
/etc/rcS.d/S03udev 5
/etc/rcS.d/S04mountdevsubfs.sh 6
/etc/rcS.d/S05bootlogd 7
.
.
.
/etc/rc2.d/S99rmnologin 97
/etc/rc2.d/S99stop-bootlogd 98
/etc/rc2.d/S99upwlan 100


But only the following scripts in rc[S2].d have log_end_msg

/etc/rcS.d/S03udev
/etc/rcS.d/S05bootlogd
/etc/rcS.d/S07hdparm
/etc/rcS.d/S40pcmciautils
/etc/rcS.d/S43portmap
/etc/rcS.d/S70x11-common
/etc/rc2.d/S18portmap
/etc/rc2.d/S20dbus
/etc/rc2.d/S20dirmngr
/etc/rc2.d/S21nfs-common
/etc/rc2.d/S89atd
/etc/rc2.d/S89cron
/etc/rc2.d/S99gdm

This means the update process will go like: 

5, 7, 9, 35, 41, 51, 61, 64, 68, 87, 93, 94, 95

So the bar will be updated 13 times. But the more scripts start using
it, the better it looks. 

grts Tim
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