I am not sure when it happened, but at sometime within the last 2-3 weeks the display when doing a yum update/install/etc from CLI has changed.
In the past, when yum was downloading packages the progress was all shown on a single line, and a new line was created only when the package name changed. Now it gets a new line for each progress update [1] as seen from an update done today.
I checked and there have been no yum updates in some time, so I do not know which program is at fault here.
Has anyone else noted this? Do you have any ideas on what the culprit likely is?
I noted this update [2] that sounds suspicious, but I thought yum used python and not perl. I also see that PIL was installed and python-imaging and python-numeric were erased on 9/15 with my update.[3]
Is it likely that an update to python broke a borked call from yum that had taken advantage of a weakness which was tightened up in the python update?
[1] Downloading Packages: (1/6): libtunepimp-0.4.3- 20% |===== | 64 kB 00:01 E (1/6): libtunepimp-0.4.3- 52% |============= | 160 kB 00:00 E (1/6): libtunepimp-0.4.3- 78% |=================== | 240 kB 00:00 E (1/6): libtunepimp-0.4.3- 100% |=========================| 307 kB 00:01
[2] Sep 23 21:55:13 Updated: perl-Term-ProgressBar.noarch 2.09-2.fc5
[3] Sep 07 20:58:18 Installed: python-khashmir.noarch 4.4.0-1.fc5.rf Sep 15 19:13:52 Erased: python-imaging Sep 15 19:15:13 Erased: python-numeric Sep 15 19:15:02 Installed: PIL.x86_64 1.1.5-7.1.fc5.at
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:21:09 -0500 Jeff Vian jvian10@charter.net wrote:
Now it gets a new line for each progress update [1] as seen from an update done today.
Your terminal window is likely a few characters too narrow for the text display to show on a single line. Widen it out a bit and see if that fixes it.
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 17:22 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:21:09 -0500 Jeff Vian jvian10@charter.net wrote:
Now it gets a new line for each progress update [1] as seen from an update done today.
Your terminal window is likely a few characters too narrow for the text display to show on a single line. Widen it out a bit and see if that fixes it.
doh!. I thought I was using the standard width (and was) in the gnome-terminal screen.
It turns out that the addition of the ETA at the end of the lines makes them stairstep as I saw. Extending the gnome-terminal width by a few characters brings back the original behaviour. So it seems that now a default gnome-terminal is not wide enough.
I have not tested this in a text screen so do not know if it is the 80 character limit or the gnome-terminal default width that is the culprit here.
Guess I need to engage brain before posting. :(
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