Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:52:28 -0400, George Boudreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One weak point in jhalfs is the progress bar. It is only a fancy >> timer and does not display the percent completion. True progress would >> be based on SBU calcs for each package. This idea ranked at 99 on the >> todo list and eventually became covered in dust. There may yet be >> interest in such a mod. (nudge,nudge) > > I'd be interested, in a hopefully simple 'feature', of being able to disable > the progress bar entirely through the config screens. It's been a while > since I did some tests, but disabling it certainly seemed to speed things up > a fair bit for me and IIRC several other people confirmed. See the thread at > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lfs.automated/6664/focus=6677 which has > some interesting discussion on the subject including a suggestion by a > certain Mr Huntwork that mirrors my own!
Such a feature already exists: svn co svn://linuxfromscratch.org/ALFS/jhalfs/trunk jhalfs-trunk cd jhalfs-trunk >common/progress_bar.sh Works great. ;) No, but really, it would be nice to have an official option, or as George mentioned, to devise a new methodology. George, a long time ago (you'd have to search the archives) when Manuel was first devising a progress bar, I sent him one that did at least start down the path of SBU calcs, etc. I think Manuel raised the objection that any calculation done effectively skews the actual SBU time. Sort of like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle... -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
