Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.4.4 Severity: wishlist It would be cool if debmirror could provide a bit better progress reporting. Specifically, one or more of the following:
* number of files still to download * amount of data still to download * an estimate of the remaining time It is OK to update these only after each file has been downloaded. I believe that debmirror makes a list of all the package files it needs to download, and it can get the size of each package, so the first two should be reasonably easy to do. The third time will require keeping track of the download speed (for the previous download only, perhaps), and do some calculation to estimate the remaining time. The current output with -v gives a "percent done" kind of progress report after each file. There is no indication if that is based on number of files or amount of data or something else. I don't know if it still happens, but it also used to go over 100%. Because of all this uncertainty, and because there is no way to see how long it has been running already, the user has no way to estimate how long things are still going to go on. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debmirror depends on: ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co pn libcompress-zlib-perl <none> (no description available) ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.12-1 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith ii liblockfile-simple-perl 0.207-1 Simple advisory file locking ii libwww-perl 5.836-1 Perl HTTP/WWW client/server librar ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.10.1-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules [libnet-perl] 5.10.1-13 Core Perl modules ii rsync 3.0.7-2 fast remote file copy program (lik Versions of packages debmirror recommends: ii ed 1.4-1 The classic UNIX line editor ii gpgv 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - signature veri ii patch 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original Versions of packages debmirror suggests: ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
