[opensuse-factory] texlive ascii spinner
Whose bright idea was it to add an ascii spinner when the large texlive packages (e.g. texlive-doc and texlive-latex-doc) are doing their thing? I use Smart to do my package management, and I end up with tens of thousands of lines of: [-] [\] [|] [/] and it make it very hard to scroll just to the parts of the log that have actual messages to display. Is there any way to turn that feature off? Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 03 January 2010 00:12:56 Space Case wrote:
Whose bright idea was it to add an ascii spinner when the large texlive packages (e.g. texlive-doc and texlive-latex-doc) are doing their thing? I use Smart to do my package management, and I end up with tens of thousands of lines of: [-] [\] [|] [/] and it make it very hard to scroll just to the parts of the log that have actual messages to display. Is there any way to turn that feature off?
If it is not typo Smart==zypper, then the same happens installing packages with zypper when console window is shorter then line with report about current operation. Although, with broadband you don't end up with hundreds of lines. Try to expand window, that helps here.
Steve
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On Jan 3, 12:23am, "Rajko M." wrote:
On Sunday 03 January 2010 00:12:56 Space Case wrote:
Whose bright idea was it to add an ascii spinner when the large texlive packages (e.g. texlive-doc and texlive-latex-doc) are doing their thing? I use Smart to do my package management, and I end up with tens of thousands of lines of: [-] [\] [|] [/] and it make it very hard to scroll just to the parts of the log that have actual messages to display. Is there any way to turn that feature off?
If it is not typo Smart==zypper, then the same happens installing packages with zypper when console window is shorter then line with report about current operation. Although, with broadband you don't end up with hundreds of lines.
No, not a typo. Description : The Smart Package Manager project has the ambitious objective of creating smart and portable algorithms for solving adequately the problem of managing software upgrading and installation. This tool works in all major distributions, and will bring notable advantages over native tools currently in use (APT, APT-RPM, YUM, URPMI, etc).
Try to expand window, that helps here.
Even though my screen is 1920x1200 and can show 66 lines in the window, there's still a _lot_ of scrolling involved. Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 03 January 2010 01:07:48 Space Case wrote:
Try to expand window, that helps here.
Even though my screen is 1920x1200 and can show 66 lines in the window, there's still a lot of scrolling involved.
Expand horizontally so that line is completely in a console window. That is what helps not to see multiple lines for each download :) Zypper is using percentage indicator, but it has the same problem. When report line is too long for the console window, it will write new line for each change in numbers. I would try different console applications to see who is the culprit, console or package management application. -- Regards Rajko, openSUSE Wiki Team: http://en.opensuse.org/Wiki_Team People of openSUSE: http://en.opensuse.org/People_of_openSUSE/About -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 03 Jan 2010 06:12:56 Space Case wrote:
Whose bright idea was it to add an ascii spinner when the large texlive packages (e.g. texlive-doc and texlive-latex-doc) are doing their thing? I use Smart to do my package management, and I end up with tens of thousands of lines of: [-] [\] [|] [/] and it make it very hard to scroll just to the parts of the log that have actual messages to display. Is there any way to turn that feature off?
Steve Expand the Xterm or Konsole or whatever other terminal you are using this is NOT new has been going on since 10.3 if your terminal window is too narrow .
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On Jan 3, 8:50am, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Sunday 03 Jan 2010 06:12:56 Space Case wrote:
Whose bright idea was it to add an ascii spinner when the large texlive packages (e.g. texlive-doc and texlive-latex-doc) are doing their thing? I use Smart to do my package management, and I end up with tens of thousands of lines of: [-] [\] [|] [/] and it make it very hard to scroll just to the parts of the log that have actual messages to display. Is there any way to turn that feature off?
Expand the Xterm or Konsole or whatever other terminal you are using this is NOT new has been going on since 10.3 if your terminal window is too narrow .
It's not a terminal window of any kind. Smart has its own gui. If lines are too long, I get a horizontal scroll bar. That doesn't happen with the texlive output. And Smart cannot handle output that is meant to overwrite itself. I guess this is the second Smart issue I have (the first being that threads time out after 15 minutes whether they are actively downloading or not -- which means that kernel sources and several texlive files don't get fully downloaded on the first try). Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Jan 3, 8:50am, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Sunday 03 Jan 2010 06:12:56 Space Case wrote:
Whose bright idea was it to add an ascii spinner when the large texlive packages (e.g. texlive-doc and texlive-latex-doc) are doing their thing? I use Smart to do my package management, and I end up with tens of thousands of lines of: [-] [\] [|] [/] and it make it very hard to scroll just to the parts of the log that have actual messages to display. Is there any way to turn that feature off?
Expand the Xterm or Konsole or whatever other terminal you are using this is NOT new has been going on since 10.3 if your terminal window is too narrow .
It's not a terminal window of any kind. Smart has its own gui. If lines are too long, I get a horizontal scroll bar. That doesn't happen with the texlive output. And Smart cannot handle output that is meant to overwrite itself. I guess this is the second Smart issue I have (the first being that threads time out after 15 minutes whether they are actively downloading or not -- which means that kernel sources and several texlive files don't get fully downloaded on the first try).
Steve
On Sunday 03 Jan 2010 21:36:14 Space Case wrote: that sounds like smart is not quite so smart then maybe you should try zypper in a terminal , although i use KDE some things are just better by far from the CLI .. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4- default KDE: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1" 22:55 up 3 days 10:22, 3 users, load average: 0.39, 0.56, 0.60
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:12:56PM -0800, Space Case wrote:
Whose bright idea was it to add an ascii spinner when the large texlive packages (e.g. texlive-doc and texlive-latex-doc) are doing their thing? I use Smart to do my package management, and I end up with tens of thousands of lines of: [-] [\] [|] [/] and it make it very hard to scroll just to the parts of the log that have actual messages to display. Is there any way to turn that feature off?
Please file a bug report and suggest to print a single dot for 100 or 500 lines of output the tex stuff generates. In an earlier version of openSUSE Factory post the 11.2 release this had been worse. BTW the smart approach is nice but doesn't scale as well as libzypp and zypper does since quite some time. With zypper I had been able to move an old 133 MHz CPU and 32 MB RAM system from openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2 while operation as explained in the openSUSE wiki at http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade You have to be careful with the -d option as it requires a lot of disk space at /var/cache/zypp/ Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
On Jan 3, 4:54pm, Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= wrote:
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:12:56PM -0800, Space Case wrote:
Whose bright idea was it to add an ascii spinner when the large texlive packages (e.g. texlive-doc and texlive-latex-doc) are doing their thing? I use Smart to do my package management, and I end up with tens of thousands of lines of: [-] [\] [|] [/] and it make it very hard to scroll just to the parts of the log that have actual messages to display. Is there any way to turn that feature off?
Please file a bug report and suggest to print a single dot for 100 or 500 lines of output the tex stuff generates.
OK, where do I do that?
In an earlier version of openSUSE Factory post the 11.2 release this had been worse.
Hmm. I've been following "factory" since 10.0, and don't remember it being worse than this.
BTW the smart approach is nice but doesn't scale as well as libzypp and zypper does since quite some time. With zypper I had been able to move an old 133 MHz CPU and 32 MB RAM system from openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2 while operation as explained in the openSUSE wiki at http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade You have to be careful with the -d option as it requires a lot of disk space at /var/cache/zypp/
Oh, I dunno. I switched from yast to smart early on, and except for a couple of times where there were too many differences between all the repositiories I have loaded up, I've not had any problem with it. Other than this, that is. Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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