Am Sonntag 28 September 2008 schrieb Dan McGee: > 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/f > >>iles/coreutils-gen-progress-bar.patch?revision=7276&root=pardus&view=mark > >>up&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 Introducing such things, might hold us in updating if upstream and patch doesn't fit together anymore. -1 from my side
greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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