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

[David C. Rankin]

On 6/7/21 4:46 AM, Xiretza via arch-general wrote:
> From pacman.conf(5):
> 
>> ParallelDownloads
>> Specifies number of concurrent download streams. The value needs to be a
>> positive integer. If this config option is not set then only one download
>> stream is used (i.e. downloads happen sequentially). 

Found that after the error, but setting

ParallelDownloads = 1

Makes no difference whatsoever. The same discombobulated output is seen, e.g.

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
 inetutils-2.0-1-x86_64
 Total (0/5)                                0.0   B  0.00   B/s 00:00
[--------------------------------------]   0%
 libgusb-0.3.7-1-x86_64                   345.3 KiB  2.06 MiB/s 00:00
[######################################] 100%
 Total (1/5)                               15.8 KiB  0.00   B/s --:--
[--------------------------------------]   0%
 liblouis-3.18.0-1-x86_64                  65.1 KiB   857 KiB/s 00:00
[######################################] 100%
 Total (2/5)                              361.1 KiB   523 KiB/s 00:11
[#-------------------------------------]   5%
 mpg123-1.28.0-1-x86_6464                   2.0 MiB  4.67 MiB/s 00:00
[######################################] 100%
 Total (3/5)                             1898.4 KiB  2.48 MiB/s 00:01
[###########---------------------------]  30%
 openmpi-4.1.1-1-x86_64                   432.7 KiB  2.35 MiB/s 00:00
[######################################] 100%
 Total (4/5)                                2.5 MiB  2.58 MiB/s 00:01
[##############------------------------]  39%
 Total (5/5)                                6.2 MiB  3.13 MiB/s 00:02
[######################################] 100%


I'll just live with it until I have time to dig into the pacman source and
find out what this supposed "new feature" is that screws up old terminals.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.