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

[Tim Lauridsen]

seth vidal wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>   
Looks fine to me.

Tim
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