On Tuesday 28 October 2008 23:09:48 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 21:11:05 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> How to "downgrade" to old fetching indicator (single-line instead of > >> multiple lines)? > > > > This has been bugging me for a long time as well, I'd really liek to know > > what's going on. > > > > 'ps ax' while emerge is downloading shows the full wget command used - > > it's FETCHCOMMAND from make.conf. The identical command on the command > > line produces the old output. Adding the wget option --progress=bar to > > FETCHCOMMAND changes nothing, but it is the correct option to influence > > this behaviour. > > > > It seems like perhaps FETCHCOMMAND is no longer the applicable setting in > > make.conf... > > Perhaps you did not read wget's info page ? > Please read the following excerpt to the end
OK, that explains it. I read the first three paragraphs, saw "Legal indicators are 'dot' and 'bar'" and figured there were two options - verbose with lots of dots or concise with 50 dashes. That'll teach me to assume :-) [man wget's is getting like bash, screen, nmap and mplayer's man pages...] But there's something else at work here - this change happened on my mchine within the last 6 weeks. The last emerge of wget here was Aug 17. So what changed with portage? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
