On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:39:22AM +0100, Alexandre Filgueira wrote:
Hi
I have a repo using redirections to let the server get the closest mirror for the client using Mirrorbrain software. When configuring pacman to that mirror, he follows the redirection as expected by using FOLLOWLOCATION in curl opts, but he shows 2 download progress, I guess that one is for the redirection and the last one for the file itself. So my question is... should be look like that? or would be correct to detect redirections and show just one download progress?
I'm more inclined to believe that this isn't due to the redirect so much as the size of the response headers. Pulling any random package off the arch website (which has a 302 redirect) doesn't show this behavior: $ sudo pacman -U https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/aalib/download/ alpmtmp.q1pXbL 144.7 KiB 591K/s 00:00 [----------------------] 100% loading packages... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Packages (1): Name New Version Net Change aalib 1.4rc5-9 0.75 MiB Total Installed Size: 0.75 MiB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] The header size is a full 100 bytes smaller than your example: $ curl -sD- -o/dev/null https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/aalib/download/ | wc -c 287
This is an example of what is writting pacman:
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from cinnarch-repo... faenza-icon-theme-1... 382.0 B 6.51M/s 00:00 [######################] 100% faenza-icon-theme-1... 10.8 MiB 333K/s 00:16 [##############--------] 66%
Uggh. IMO, curl really shouldn't be doing this and should only be triggering the progress callback for the response body. d