FS#11243 - Show date and time on final line of screen output after syncing

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Charlie Law (dhave) - Sunday, 17 August 2008, 22:18 GMT
Last edited by Xavier (shining) - Monday, 18 August 2008, 08:24 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Output
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.1.4
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:

At present, the normal screen output after a sync (e.g., following "pacman -Syu") shows the status of each local repository then reports "local database is up to date". It would be good if the date and time were shown on that final line so that the next time I run pacman, I would see the date and time of my previous sync attempt.

Note that I always run pacman from a dedicated console window -- actually, a yakuake console -- so the screen output of my previous sync attempt or pacman action remains displayed. I'm not sure this would be as useful for those who open a fresh console when the want to run pacman. Maybe it would help some other people, though.


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Closed by  Xavier (shining)
Monday, 18 August 2008, 08:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  "we don't want pacman to be cluttered with extraneous info" :)
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 17 August 2008, 23:16 GMT
What's wrong with
tail /var/log/pacman.log
Comment by Charlie Law (dhave) - Sunday, 17 August 2008, 23:27 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion, which is a good one. I know that the info I'm talking about is readily available in pacman.log, but, lazy person that I am, I'd just like to see the date and time of sync reported along as part of the sync report. Besides the convenience of seeing it there on the screen when I think of doing another sync (and I tend to sync a lot more often than necessary), it's useful information that would make the screen output more meaningful.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 17 August 2008, 23:29 GMT
I just don't think this has any place in pacman output, as it is meant to be an interactive "I know when I'm doing this" type thing. Why not add the current time to your prompt, that way you can see when the command was run or something?
Comment by Charlie Law (dhave) - Sunday, 17 August 2008, 23:38 GMT
I guess my attitude toward putting the date and time in the prompt is the same as yours regarding pacman output: I don't want my prompt to be cluttered with extraneous info (that I can get from glancing at the panel or desktop). But, hey, it's not a big deal to me. I suppose if I wanted to I could write a script that would run a pacman sync and display the time, or display the tail of pacman.log.
Comment by Charlie Law (dhave) - Monday, 18 August 2008, 01:15 GMT
I guess my attitude toward putting the date and time in the prompt is the same as yours regarding pacman output: I don't want my prompt to be cluttered with extraneous info (that I can get from glancing at the panel or desktop). But, hey, it's not a big deal to me. I suppose if I wanted to I could write a script that would run a pacman sync and display the time, or display the tail of pacman.log.

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