Hi Guys,
I cobbled together a quick little hack to have a little bit more interactivity
during the "Updating Portage cache" phase. It prints out the name of the
package it is updating, along with the percentage progress.
-jason
--- emerge.orig 2006-01-25 21:36:09.000000000 -0600
+++ emerge 2006-01-25 21:45:08.000000000 -0600
@@ -2647,7 +2647,7 @@
if os.path.exists(myportdir+"/metadata/cache") and updatecache_flg:
if "--quiet" not in myopts:
- print "\n>>> Updating Portage cache: ",
+ print "\n>>> Updating Portage cache: ",
os.umask(0002)
cachedir = os.path.normpath(portage.settings.depcachedir)
if cachedir in ["/", "/bin", "/dev", "/etc", "/home",
@@ -2731,15 +2731,20 @@
savelist = []
catlist = []
oldcat = portage.catsplit(cp_list[0])[0]
+ prev_msg_len = 0
for cp in cp_list:
current += 1
if current >= nextupdate:
pcnt += 1
nextupdate += pcntcount
- if "--quiet" not in myopts:
- pcntstr = str(pcnt)
- sys.stdout.write("\b"*(len(pcntstr)+1)+pcntstr+"%")
- sys.stdout.flush()
+ if "--quiet" not in myopts:
+ pcntstr = str(pcnt)
+ bksp = "\b" * prev_msg_len
+ msg = pcntstr + "% (" + cp + ")"
+ erasure = " " * max((prev_msg_len - len(msg)),0)
+ prev_msg_len = len(msg + erasure)
+ sys.stdout.write(bksp + msg + erasure)
+ sys.stdout.flush()
cat = portage.catsplit(cp)[0]
if cat != oldcat:
catlist.append(oldcat)
