On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 16:47 -0800, Ed Swierk wrote: > yum 3.0.1 generates redundant progress output while installing > packages: rpm calls back into yum for every file it touches, which > causes yum to refresh the progress indicator even if neither the > percentage nor the hash marks have changed. > > When installing a package with ~23000 files (a complete kernel source > tree), yum writes about 1.8 Mbytes to stdout. This is pretty painful > when SSHing over a slow link or even when working locally using a > fancy terminal like the xemacs shell. > > The attached patch suppresses redundant progress updates but does not > otherwise alter any functionality. With the patch, yum generates only > 3756 bytes to stdout when installing the same package, a savings of > approximately 100% :-)
Well the patch is pretty straightforward. I don't see any good reason not to include it. Anyone else see anything obviously wrong with it? Thanks, -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
