[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Eliminate redundant progress output

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 16:47 -0800, Ed Swierk wrote:
> yum 3.0.1 generates redundant progress output while installing
> packages: rpm calls back into yum for every file it touches, which
> causes yum to refresh the progress indicator even if neither the
> percentage nor the hash marks have changed.
> 
> When installing a package with ~23000 files (a complete kernel source
> tree), yum writes about 1.8 Mbytes to stdout. This is pretty painful
> when SSHing over a slow link or even when working locally using a
> fancy terminal like the xemacs shell.
> 
> The attached patch suppresses redundant progress updates but does not
> otherwise alter any functionality. With the patch, yum generates only
> 3756 bytes to stdout when installing the same package, a savings of
> approximately 100% :-)

Well the patch is pretty straightforward. I don't see any good reason
not to include it. Anyone else see anything obviously wrong with it?


Thanks,
-sv