M.Canales.es wrote: > El Jueves, 20 de Septiembre de 2007 20:01, Roger Merchberger escribió: > >> Having just gotten back into working with LFS on my new (refurb) dual-core >> Turion lappy, I thought I'd really like the progress bar, until it hit >> 100%, wrapped around & started over. That's when I figured out (correct me >> if I'm wrong) that it doesn't show the status of the package being built, >> it's just a graphical second count-off timer... am I right? > > Yes, it's only a time counter. > > We can't know beforehand how many time a package build will take on a > particular machine, thus there is no proper way, at least that I know, to > draw an actual status bar :-/ >
This was one of my favourite features of nALFS: In the top "pane" you'd get to see the build process scroll by so you knew exactly where the process was... Now, if only you could do that with Bash ;-) Al -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
