Am Sonntag 28 September 2008 schrieb Dan McGee:

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Roman Kyrylych

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2008/9/28 Andrea Scarpino :

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Hi DEVs, I saw '-g' option in copy and move commands in Gentoo. I want to request the same feauture for own coreutils package. I updated the gentoo patch [1] for coreutils 6.12, then I added the patch to PKGBUILD and it works.

-g option add a progress bar like as wget style when copy or move files.

$ cp -g iso/CoD_CD1.iso ~/Desktop/ CoD_CD1.iso

| 33% | 656 MiB | 28

MiB/s | ETA 00:00.15

What do you think about?

PS. I opened a FR [2] in bugs some minutes ago. You can get PKGBUILD and patch.

Regards

- [1] http://svn.pardus.org.tr/viewcvs/stable/pardus-1/system/base/coreutils/f iles/coreutils-gen-progress-bar.patch?revision=7276&root=pardus&view=mark up&pathrev=7276 - [2] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11603

You risk to be flamed. ;-) I doubt most devs will agree about this due to "stay as close to vanilla as possible, with bugfixes only" policy. This patch is just an extra feature, not merged by upstream. And there are more generic ways to add progressbars to console utils. For example: bar - http://www.theiling.de/projects/bar.html pv - http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml both are in community, and I saw 2 or 3 other similar utils somewhere on the web.

Same thought here. No need to patch coreutils from our end, this is upstream's job.

-Dan Introducing such things, might hold us in updating if upstream and patch doesn't fit together anymore. -1 from my side

greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org

2008/9/28 Roman Kyrylych :

You risk to be flamed. ;-) I know, I know :P I doubt most devs will agree about this due to "stay as close to vanilla as possible, with bugfixes only" policy. This patch is just an extra feature, not merged by upstream. And there are more generic ways to add progressbars to console utils. For example: bar - http://www.theiling.de/projects/bar.html pv - http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml both are in community, and I saw 2 or 3 other similar utils somewhere on the web. I didn't know they. I'll try them, thanks.

btw, I looked comments in the bug report. Daenyth have persuaded me to keep the patch out from arch with these words: "Let's keep things minimal, I'm pretty sure the stated policy is to only patch when a major feature is broken, or if it needs patches to work with arch, and not to add new features" Thanks for your time Cheers -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User: #430842