Rumor has it that M.Canales.es may have mentioned these words: >El Jueves, 20 de Septiembre de 2007 20:01, Roger Merchberger escribió: > > > Having just gotten back into working with LFS on my new (refurb) dual-core > > Turion lappy, I thought I'd really like the progress bar, until it hit > > 100%, wrapped around & started over. That's when I figured out (correct me > > if I'm wrong) that it doesn't show the status of the package being built, > > it's just a graphical second count-off timer... am I right? > >Yes, it's only a time counter. > >We can't know beforehand how many time a package build will take on a >particular machine, thus there is no proper way, at least that I know, to >draw an actual status bar :-/
What follows is an academic discussion, I certainly am not proposing anyone (including myself) actually do all this work... ;-) If my boss told me[1] I _had_ to build in a working progress counter, I'd approach the "problem" this way: For larger processes with many steps / commands... say 20, issue each step a 5% complete status, and update the bar at each step... If it was a long process with only a few steps, if the application had access to the process logging, one could tee & grep the logs & when certain "milestones" were reached one could update the progress bar. If it were a very short process (less than 30 seconds or so on a slowish machine) I wouldn't even bother... I'd just put a status line of "This should be done very soon." Again, this is just academic blathering... ;-) Laterz, Roger "Merch" Merchberger [1] Please note: if I had a boss that told me that, I'd still ask him if it was worth that much work for what little (any?) benefit... -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers [EMAIL PROTECTED] What do you do when Life gives you lemons, and you don't *like* lemonade????????????? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
