[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] pacman: clap transfer rate to >=0

[Allan McRae]

On 17/1/21 5:34 am, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> On 01/16/21 at 04:32pm, morganamilo wrote:
>> Sometimes when downloading packages the transfer rate drops in to the
>> negative. Not only is this incorrect, but it messes with the allignment
>> of the progress bars. So lets make sure it's always >= 0.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> This may not be the best fix as it does not address the root issue.
>> But I have no idea what the root issue is so it's on somebody else to
>> fix that.
> 
> -1.  The issue is that when alpm falls over to a new mirror the
> download counter restarts.  pacman goes from seeing X bytes downloaded
> to 0 and thinks -X bytes were just downloaded.  I'm not sure how alpm
> should be presenting that event to frontends, but I would say clamping
> to 0 is just masking problems.
> 

Is this a recent regression with the parallel downloads?    This has
been fixed in the past - see commit e83e868a77865d42a33076605f9a90a165f7c93a

A