pacman feature request, package count of total packages

clmates · 2010-03-17 15:43:12

Hi to all.

First of all congratulations for the great distro, I have been using almost 9 months and is wonderful, now I have 4 systems in arch :-D (2 mine, one from a friend and a navigation point at job)

I has been looking if this has been requested anytime and found nothing

I would like if pacman will add the package number it is installing refered to the total of packages to be installed. Also it would be nice in size)

Sometimes when you upgrade the system you have to download and install 300 packages or more, then you see pacman and when he is in the middle of the list downloading you lack the reference of how much this is going to last

if he could write to the side of each package 23/300 (145,46/1300,24) then you will know that he is downloading the 23 package out of 300 and this will make the 145,46 MB out of 1300,24 MB total to download

Thanks and sorry if this has already been requested

bharani · 2010-03-17 16:43:28

IIRC powerpill works like what you want.

clmates · 2010-03-17 18:38:00

Hi.

bharani wrote:

IIRC powerpill works like what you want.

Installed, testing now.

thanks

clmates · 2010-03-17 18:49:56

Hi.

well, it is not the same that requested, but is indeed fast, the only drawback is that you really dont see the packages that aria2 is downloading, only the package number and the size

I'm going o use this for some time and evaluate better.

Thanks again

rson451 · 2010-03-17 18:58:47

Check the pacman.conf manpage for TotalDownload. While this isn't exactly what you want, it will at least give you an idea on the progress of the overall download.

clmates · 2010-03-17 19:40:16

Hi.

rson451 wrote:

Check the pacman.conf manpage for TotalDownload. While this isn't exactly what you want, it will at least give you an idea on the progress of the overall download.

Thanks, activated this option and the showsize one

looking for new packages to test this :-D

Allan · 2010-03-17 20:56:29

I remember a feature request in the bug tracker to put some info about download positions (e.g. 5/10) at the start of the download line. There were concerns about the output getting too crowded. It is probably still open...

clmates · 2010-03-18 11:02:42

Hi Allan

Allan wrote:

I remember a feature request in the bug tracker to put some info about download positions (e.g. 5/10) at the start of the download line. There were concerns about the output getting too crowded. It is probably still open...

Looked again in the bug tracker but unable to find it.

I already didn't had test the Totaldownload option :-/

Thanks

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#1 2010-03-17 15:43:12

pacman feature request, package count of total packages

#2 2010-03-17 16:43:28

Re: pacman feature request, package count of total packages

#3 2010-03-17 18:38:00

Re: pacman feature request, package count of total packages

#4 2010-03-17 18:49:56

Re: pacman feature request, package count of total packages

#5 2010-03-17 18:58:47

Re: pacman feature request, package count of total packages

#6 2010-03-17 19:40:16

Re: pacman feature request, package count of total packages

#7 2010-03-17 20:56:29

Re: pacman feature request, package count of total packages

#8 2010-03-18 11:02:42

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