On 08/06/16 07:01, Ivy Foster wrote:

Syncing repos and downloading packages with --noprogressbar specified often prints the status message "downloading $foo..." to several lines in a row. --- src/pacman/callback.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/pacman/callback.c b/src/pacman/callback.c index ab3e14f..468d657 100644 --- a/src/pacman/callback.c +++ b/src/pacman/callback.c @@ -680,8 +680,10 @@ void cb_dl_progress(const char *filename, off_t file_xfered, off_t file_total)

if(config->noprogressbar || cols == 0 || file_total == -1) { if(file_xfered == 0) { - printf(_("downloading %s...\n"), filename); + printf(_("downloading %s...\r"), filename); fflush(stdout); + } else if(file_xfered == file_total) { + putchar('\n'); } return; }

I'm not going to accept this because it is just papering over the underlying issue. From memory, there was a thread about fixing the root cause of this about a year ago. I'm not sure where than went. Allan