[arch-general] pacman doesn't show download progress

[Eli Schwartz]

On 08/17/2017 02:43 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> Well, look at this:
> 
> ```
> [eschwartz at arch ~]$ pacman -Sp linux
> http://archlinux.mirrors.ovh.net/archlinux/testing/os/i686/linux-4.12.7-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
> [eschwartz at arch ~]$ wget -P /tmp/
> http://archlinux.mirrors.ovh.net/archlinux/testing/os/i686/linux-4.12.7-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
> --2017-08-17 14:31:17--
> http://archlinux.mirrors.ovh.net/archlinux/testing/os/i686/linux-4.12.7-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
> Resolving archlinux.mirrors.ovh.net... 213.32.5.7,
> 2001:41d0:202:100:213:32:5:7
> Connecting to archlinux.mirrors.ovh.net|213.32.5.7|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: ‘/tmp/linux-4.12.7-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz’
> 
> linux-4.12.7-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz              [       <=>
>                                                   ]   1.37M   912KB/s
> 
> ```
> 
> Length is unspecified, and wget does its <=> slidy-back-and-forth thing.
> And it seems pacman just gives up on showing progress information and
> instead shows nothing (which isn't unreasonable).
> 
> As for your log, that's just the HTTP headers, something you can also
> see with curl -I http://...
> 
> Notice how the Content-Length: header is missing.

... and it's probably worth mentioning that sometime in the last 10
minutes they seem to have fixed this.

-- 
Eli Schwartz

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