[Yum-devel] [PATCH] More fancy progress msgs

Terje Rosten terje.rosten at ntnu.no
Thu Jan 20 15:48:27 UTC 2005


* seth vidal
| 
| The things I don't like about this is that for VERY large
| transactions the % on the side is not terribly useful.

That's when it's important with feedback too.


| Some folks want to know which of the two functions is actually being
| performed: an install or an update.

Ok, I can fix that, e.g. like this:

 Install : vixie-cron         ########################################### [ 36%]
 Update  : dhcpv6_client      ########################################### [ 40%]


| Also looking like rpm just tends to confuse people as to what
| program is actually being run.

I consider that a feature, people should rarely use rpm, this makes
the transition to use-yum-for-everything easier.


| What advantage do you see in laying things out like this? I do like
| the tabbing as you've done. It is cleaner for the display.

Not a real argument, however I was used to apt-get and plain rpm
before FC3 and wanted this look in yum too.


| I also grouped them this way b/c you can double click on emacs.i386 and
| have it in your clipboard and paste that onto a command line and get it
| all set. You can't do that for emacs-2:21.3-1.i386 b/c putting the epoch
| in the middle isn't a supported cli option.

Yeah, I did not know this was possible:

$ rpm -q glibc.i686 glibc.x86_64
glibc-2.3.3-27.1
glibc-2.3.3-27.1 

Thanks, then this makes more sense.


 - Terje




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