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

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 16:48 +0100, Terje Rosten wrote:
> * 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.

I like the counting more than percentages.
maybe something like:

Install : vixie-cron      ################################### [ 1/1000]

but that's hard to make even on the right-hand-side b/c of the variable
size of the numbered display.
	

> | 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.


<shrug> 

Anyone else on the list have any comments/preferences/anecdotes?


> 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.

you can also do that with yum, too.

yum install foo.i686

or:
yum install foo-1.1-1.i686

etc etc

-sv