[arch-releng] archiso feature request: disable progress bars.

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:30:12 -0300
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> On 10/14/2011 10:56 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> > On 10/14/2011 02:20 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> >> On 10/13/2011 05:44 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> >>> Hello senior Gerardo,
> >>> how about making a build.sh command argument to disable progress
> >>> bars? I.e. it would call mksquashfs -no-progress
> >>> my logfiles would look prettier :)
> >>> I thought maybe you could do "don't show progress bars when 
> >>> non-verbose" but I like the verbose flag so I can see
> >>> errors/warnings. or maybe you should always show errors/warnings,
> >>> also when not verbose. then I could run without the verbose flag
> >>> and don't see any progress bars.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Dieter
> >>>
> >>
> >> OK. I will look at the code again in few days. I am a bit busy in 
> >> these weeks.
> >>
> >
> > OK just disabled progress bar, if you need other thing, please let
> > me know.
> >
> > Error handling is a bit special (bash -x), it stop at the first
> > thing that goes bad. Maybe can be a good idea to trap this and show
> > an error message that says "for details enable verbose mode".
> >
> > http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/commit/?id=51db47e74bb5209bb242d99e6d69b1f683dd3085 
> >
> >
> Maybe you can also want to disable progress bars during package
> download when making "core-repo" for core isos.
> 
> right?
> 

yes, I would like all progress bars gone when running archiso from my scripts.
at the same time, i realise when running archiso interactively, progress bars are useful.

Dieter