[pacman-dev] [PATCH] callback.c: only print download status message once with --noprogressbar

[Ivy Foster]

On 09 Jun 2016, at  4:01 pm +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 08/06/16 07:01, Ivy Foster wrote:
> > Syncing repos and downloading packages with --noprogressbar specified
> > often prints the status message "downloading $foo..." to several
> > lines in a row.
> > ---
> >  src/pacman/callback.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) [...]

> I'm not going to accept this because it is just papering over the
> underlying issue.   From memory, there was a thread about fixing the
> root cause of this about a year ago.  I'm not sure where than went.

Ah, that's fair enough. I found the thread[1], and I'm game to try
putting together whatever solution seems best.

[1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2015-May/020094.html

Cheers,
Ivy