Arch installer annoyance

zowki · 2010-03-04 09:15:18

Just to let you guys know there is a problem with the Arch Linux installer. When I choose install packages, pacman automatically runs to install packages as anyone would expect. But if there is an error for example timeout error for downloading from a server the user would not know this unless he/she scrolls down all the way in the ncurses command output, otherwise the installer expects that the installation was successful. At first I had no idea you could scroll in the command output, I thought what I was seeing was the end of the output. This caused a lot of confusion.

So I have a suggestion to how this problem could be solved. The installer should make sure pacman returns a non zero value after terminating. If not then report the failure.

Allan · 2010-03-04 09:35:13

http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=6

sand_man · 2010-03-04 10:32:40

Allan means to say that this isn't the place to report bugs.

Arch Linux

#1 2010-03-04 09:15:18

Arch installer annoyance

#2 2010-03-04 09:35:13

Re: Arch installer annoyance

#3 2010-03-04 10:32:40

Re: Arch installer annoyance

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