FS#46646 - [pacman] Show download progress X out of Y just like during update phase

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Frank Vanderham (twelveeighty) - Saturday, 10 October 2015, 15:20 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 14 December 2015, 13:59 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
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Due Date Undecided
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Details

Especially when there's a lot of packages to download during pacman -Syu, it would be great if pacman showed a simple (X/Y) type indicator on which download out of the total number of downloads it is currently downloading. I know this is purely aesthetic, but during long updates, for those of us who like to keep an eye on the update, it would show progress as the downloads are happening.

At the "update" phase of -Syu, it does have a similar indicator for the package, so I would hope adding this to the download phase wouldn't be too much of a big deal.

An even better indicator during the download phase would be some kind of indicator showing how far along the downloads are in terms of total download size, something like:

...
abc-1.10-x86_64 [4.8 MiB] (5/10) (100.12 MiB / 1767.60 MiB)
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
a b c d e

a: package download size
b: the "b"-th package out of a total of "c" packages
c: total number of packages to download
d: running total of the download phase - this number refreshes while package is downloading similar to the current 2nd column. Difference is that instead of showing the total downloaded size of only the current package, it's a running total of all packages downloaded up to that point, plus the progress on the current package.
e: calculated total that was originally reported as the "Total Download Size" at the beginning.

However, I would be happy with just the "b" and "c" indicators.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 14 December 2015, 13:59 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Use TotalDownload
Comment by Frank Vanderham (twelveeighty) - Saturday, 10 October 2015, 15:25 GMT
I just realized that flyspray is using proportional fonts, so I attached a little text file with the example + legend.
   46646-file.txt (0.2 KiB)
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 10 October 2015, 23:41 GMT
Setting "TotalDownload" in pacman.conf does at least some of that.
Comment by Frank Vanderham (twelveeighty) - Sunday, 11 October 2015, 15:31 GMT
I just tried pacman -Syu with TotalDownload uncommented in pacman.conf. I didn't notice any difference...? Below is the output. Am I not using the TotalDownload setting the right way? It's not in the man page, I noticed.

[root@cardon ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra 1805.9 KiB 194K/s 00:09 [###############################################################] 100%
community 2.9 MiB 197K/s 00:15 [###############################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (2) ffmpeg-1:2.8-2 x265-1.8-1

Total Download Size: 8.35 MiB
Total Installed Size: 38.51 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 10.27 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages ...
x265-1.8-1-x86_64 1285.5 KiB 211K/s 00:06 [###############################################################] 15%
ffmpeg-1:2.8-2-x86_64 8.3 MiB 268K/s 00:32 [###############################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking keys in keyring [###############################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity [###############################################################] 100%
(2/2) loading package files [###############################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts [###############################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking available disk space [###############################################################] 100%
(1/2) upgrading x265 [###############################################################] 100%
(2/2) upgrading ffmpeg [###############################################################] 100%
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Sunday, 11 October 2015, 15:40 GMT
> Am I not using the TotalDownload setting the right way? It's not in the man page, I noticed.
Well, it is -- you're just looking at the wrong manpage. pacman(8) is for pacman, pacman.conf(5) is for pacman.conf.

"When downloading, display the amount downloaded, download rate, ETA, and completed percentage of the entire download list rather than the percent of each individual download target."

...which is what your output shows. Notice 15% at the end of downloading x265, rather than 100% (as would be the case without TotalDownload enabled).
Comment by Frank Vanderham (twelveeighty) - Sunday, 11 October 2015, 18:28 GMT
Ah.. OK, thanks for the clarification.

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