So perhaps the switch isn't strictly necessary, but it's much easier to use. Your method requires knowledge of how pacman is implemented and could change as pacman's implementation is changed. I'd definitely rather use the --bell switch I implemented. On 2016-01-14 22:30, Andrew Gregory wrote:
That's a pretty good improvement, but there is also a long delay while pacman calculates dependencies for large upgrades. You might say that could be avoided by upgrading more frequently, but it is my style and the style of many others to opt for large monthly upgrades over small weekly or daily upgrades. I'll try formatting the patch again with git send-email. Dependency calculation should be very fast. I suspect that the delay you're seeing is actually just pacman reading information from the local database. If that's the case, just loading the local db before
On 01/11/16 at 12:32am, Eric Toombs wrote: the bell should give you the desired effect:
pacman -Sy && pacman -Sup >/dev/null && printf "\a" && pacman -Su
pacman-optimize may also be able to improve the speed of reading your local database.
apg
On 2015-12-14 12:12, Andrew Gregory wrote:
This switch rings the terminal bell when user input is required. Obviously, it has no effect if --noconfirm is also passed. --- If your only interest in this is to get a notification when downloads are done because you have a slow connection, wouldn't a small wrapper
On 11/19/15 at 07:09am, Eric Toombs wrote: script accomplish the same goal?
pacman -Sy && printf "\a" && pacman -Su
This patch also appears to have some mangled whitespace. Please use `git send-email` to submit patches.
apg