[arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

[Anton Hvornum]

Just to make sure, you're not using archinstall when that "jumping around"
happens right? Because if that's the case, then it's my fault and not
pacman :)

On Thu, 3 Jun 2021, 10:34 David C. Rankin via arch-general, <
arch-general at lists.archlinux.org> wrote:

> On 6/1/21 6:57 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote:
> > On 01/06/2021 23:15, Yash Karandikar via arch-general wrote:
> >> My guess is that they'll update that once pacman 6 hits stable.
> >
> > pacman=6.0.0-2 is already in stable. ;)
> >
>
> and it has terminal output issues bigtime. Whatever is causing it the
> download
> meter and filename jump back and for by 4-8 characters hundreds of time,
> sometime injecting a newline. The following is the output from tonight's
> update:
>
> :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
> :: Retrieving packages...
>  ca-certificates-utils-20210529-1-any
>  Total (0/6)                                0.0   B  0.00   B/s 00:00
> [--------------------------------------]   0%
>  ca-certificates-20210529-1-any-1-any       7.9 KiB   149 KiB/s 00:00
> [######################################] 100%
>  Total (1/6)                                7.9 KiB  0.00   B/s --:--
> [--------------------------------------]   0%
>  js78-78.11.0-1-x86_64529-1-any          2009.0   B  36.3 KiB/s 00:00
> [######################################] 100%
>  Total (2/6)                                7.9 KiB  0.00   B/s --:--
> [--------------------------------------]   0%
>  poppler-21.06.0-1-x86_64                  10.5 MiB  5.92 MiB/s 00:02
> [######################################] 100%
>  Total (3/6)                                9.7 MiB  5.83 MiB/s 00:23
> [##------------------------------------]   6%
>  libreoffice-still-7.0.6-2-x86_64        1333.0 KiB  4.88 MiB/s 00:00
> [######################################] 100%
>  Total (4/6)                               11.7 MiB  5.35 MiB/s 00:25
> [###-----------------------------------]   8%
>  poppler-glib-21.06.0-1-x86_64_64         134.0 MiB  5.94 MiB/s 00:23
> [######################################] 100%
>  Total (5/6)                              144.9 MiB  6.09 MiB/s 00:00
> [#####################################-]  99%
>  Total (6/6)                              146.1 MiB  5.82 MiB/s 00:25
> [######################################] 100%
>
> That's just bizarre. Haven't seen this behavior before in the last decade+.
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>
>