Re: [gentoo-user] how to downgrade to old fetching indicator?

[Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto]

> On Tuesday 28 October 2008 21:11:05 Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> How to "downgrade" to old fetching indicator (single-line instead of
>> multiple lines)?
>
> This has been bugging me for a long time as well, I'd really liek to know
> what's going on.
>
> 'ps ax' while emerge is downloading shows the full wget command used - it's
> FETCHCOMMAND from make.conf. The identical command on the command line
> produces the old output. Adding the wget option --progress=bar to
> FETCHCOMMAND changes nothing, but it is the correct option to influence this
> behaviour.
>
> It seems like perhaps FETCHCOMMAND is no longer the applicable setting in
> make.conf...

Perhaps you did not read wget's info page ?
Please read the following excerpt to the end

`--progress=TYPE'
     Select the type of the progress indicator you wish to use.  Legal
     indicators are "dot" and "bar".

     The "bar" indicator is used by default.  It draws an ASCII progress
     bar graphics (a.k.a "thermometer" display) indicating the status of
     retrieval.  If the output is not a TTY, the "dot" bar will be used
     by default.

     Use `--progress=dot' to switch to the "dot" display.  It traces
     the retrieval by printing dots on the screen, each dot
     representing a fixed amount of downloaded data.

     When using the dotted retrieval, you may also set the "style" by
     specifying the type as `dot:STYLE'.  Different styles assign
     different meaning to one dot.  With the `default' style each dot
     represents 1K, there are ten dots in a cluster and 50 dots in a
     line.  The `binary' style has a more "computer"-like
     orientation--8K dots, 16-dots clusters and 48 dots per line (which
     makes for 384K lines).  The `mega' style is suitable for
     downloading very large files--each dot represents 64K retrieved,
     there are eight dots in a cluster, and 48 dots on each line (so
     each line contains 3M).

     Note that you can set the default style using the `progress'
     command in `.wgetrc'.  That setting may be overridden from the
     command line.  The exception is that, when the output is not a
     TTY, the "dot" progress will be favored over "bar".  To force the
     bar output, use `--progress=bar:force'.

So you can try --progress=bar:force

I personally like --progress=dot. And when I download huge files like CD images,
I use wget -b --limit-rate=<MY_DESIRED_RATE_LIMIT> --progress=dot:mega
'http://example.com/foo.tar.lzma'

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