On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/28 Andrea Scarpino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi DEVs, >> I saw '-g' option in copy and move commands in Gentoo. >> I want to request the same feauture for own coreutils package. >> I updated the gentoo patch [1] for coreutils 6.12, then I added the >> patch to PKGBUILD and it works. >> >> -g option add a progress bar like as wget style when copy or move files. >> >> $ cp -g iso/CoD_CD1.iso ~/Desktop/ >> CoD_CD1.iso >> | 33% | 656 MiB | 28 >> MiB/s | ETA 00:00.15 >> >> What do you think about? >> >> PS. I opened a FR [2] in bugs some minutes ago. You can get PKGBUILD and >> patch. >> >> Regards >> >> - [1] >> http://svn.pardus.org.tr/viewcvs/stable/pardus-1/system/base/coreutils/files/coreutils-gen-progress-bar.patch?revision=7276&root=pardus&view=markup&pathrev=7276 >> - [2] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11603 > > You risk to be flamed. ;-) > I doubt most devs will agree about this due to > "stay as close to vanilla as possible, with bugfixes only" policy. > This patch is just an extra feature, not merged by upstream. > And there are more generic ways to add progressbars to console utils. > For example: > bar - http://www.theiling.de/projects/bar.html > pv - http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml > both are in community, and I saw 2 or 3 other similar utils somewhere > on the web.
Same thought here. No need to patch coreutils from our end, this is upstream's job. -Dan
