[arch-releng] archiso feature request: disable progress bars.

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 10/21/2011 03:29 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:30:12 -0300
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>  wrote:
>
>> On 10/14/2011 10:56 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>>> On 10/14/2011 02:20 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>>>> On 10/13/2011 05:44 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>>>>> Hello senior Gerardo,
>>>>> how about making a build.sh command argument to disable progress
>>>>> bars? I.e. it would call mksquashfs -no-progress
>>>>> my logfiles would look prettier :)
>>>>> I thought maybe you could do "don't show progress bars when
>>>>> non-verbose" but I like the verbose flag so I can see
>>>>> errors/warnings. or maybe you should always show errors/warnings,
>>>>> also when not verbose. then I could run without the verbose flag
>>>>> and don't see any progress bars.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dieter
>>>>>
>>>> OK. I will look at the code again in few days. I am a bit busy in
>>>> these weeks.
>>>>
>>> OK just disabled progress bar, if you need other thing, please let
>>> me know.
>>>
>>> Error handling is a bit special (bash -x), it stop at the first
>>> thing that goes bad. Maybe can be a good idea to trap this and show
>>> an error message that says "for details enable verbose mode".
>>>
>>> http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/commit/?id=51db47e74bb5209bb242d99e6d69b1f683dd3085
>>>
>>>
>> Maybe you can also want to disable progress bars during package
>> download when making "core-repo" for core isos.
>>
>> right?
>>
> yes, I would like all progress bars gone when running archiso from my scripts.
> at the same time, i realise when running archiso interactively, progress bars are useful.
>
> Dieter
>

I prefer to not add more complexity, in other words I will disable 
progress bars, keeping things like when wget was used (if I do not 
remember bad).

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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