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

[Andrew Gregory]

On 06/07/21 at 02:49pm, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
> 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.

We are now 26 messages deep in a thread that has nothing to do with
the original post and with no real progress being made.

The obvious suspect is that your terminal does not support the ANSI
escape codes used for the new multi-line progress bars.  You have two
options:  use a terminal that does or disable the progress bars.  If
you find something to indicate that this is not the source of your
problem, file a bug with pacman.

Otherwise, can we please let this thread die?

apg