On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Bhargav Prasanna wrote:

Hi,

Lets say you are downloading a package with x dependencies. i.e. x+1 packages in all:

Pacman tells you that you have x+1 targets. But if x+1 is a large number, which is usually the case when the system is being set up or updated, the user loses track of the number of packages that have been downloaded and the number remaining a short while after the downloads commence.

Debian's apt-get has a really good feature. If the nth package (n<=x+1) is being downloaded, you'll see that in every line: "[n/x+1]" which tells you how many you've downloaded and how many you are yet to is present. This will help the user keep track. =)

If someone can guide me here, I guess we can add this feature to pacman

You might find TotalDownload a lot more useful, as # of packages when downloading is a lot less useful than overall download progress. man pacman.conf -Dan

2009/11/12 Allan McRae :

Dan McGee wrote:

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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Bhargav Prasanna wrote:

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Hi,

Lets say you are downloading a package with x dependencies. i.e. x+1 packages in all:

Pacman tells you that you have x+1 targets. But if x+1 is a large number, which is usually the case when the system is being set up or updated, the user loses track of the number of packages that have been downloaded and the number remaining a short while after the downloads commence.

Debian's apt-get has a really good feature. If the nth package (n<=x+1) is being downloaded, you'll see that in every line: "[n/x+1]" which tells you how many you've downloaded and how many you are yet to is present. This will help the user keep track. =)

If someone can guide me here, I guess we can add this feature to pacman

You might find TotalDownload a lot more useful, as # of packages when downloading is a lot less useful than overall download progress. man pacman.conf

An an FYI, there is a really old bug report requesting this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/833

Allan

Total Download seems good. =) Thanks for the bug report link. -- Bhargav Prasanna http://muftmukt.wordpress.com/

2009/11/12 Xavier :

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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An an FYI, there is a really old bug report requesting this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/833

1 got lost !

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8331

yes it did.. and I figured it out by searching.. =) -- Bhargav Prasanna http://muftmukt.wordpress.com/