[pacman-dev] -Qi output corrupted when using screen

[Roman Kyrylych]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 01:38, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 26.02.2010 22:01, schrieb Aaron Griffin:
>> Your terminal is configured wrong. What is $TERM set to? If you are in
>> screen it should be screen (or some variant such as screen-bce)

TERM is linux. Changing it does not help.

> "xm console" is a rather primitive terminal, not nearly as powerful as
> screen.

Ah, didn't know this.

I tried iptraf, and the output was a broken too (in another way),
so it's not just pacman that experiences this problem.

However, -Sy falls back gracefully, i.e.
via lish (screen to /dev/hvc0):
 testing                   14.5K   52.4K/s 00:00:00
 core                      36.1K   85.7K/s 00:00:00
 extra                    445.6K   60.8K/s 00:00:07
via ssh:
 testing                   14.5K   56.2K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 core                      36.1K   91.1K/s 00:00:00 [#####################] 100%
 extra                    152.0K   75.8K/s 00:00:03 [#######--------------]  34%

-Ss is broken too.
It looks like the breakage occurs on spaces after some column,
so -Ql doesn't break even very long lines,
because there is no space in package paths.

It would be nice to have -Ss/-Si/-Qi usable too,
but it seems like a very low priority
(I don't know if there are many people who run pacman
on such limited terminals as xm console)

-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)