[Apt-Rpm] disabling progress output

[Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth]

On 06/10/2008 05:03 PM, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote:
> I'd like to disable the progress output during installing or upgrading 
> rpms in order to be able to log the output to a file.
> 
> In earlier versions, this was possible using
>   -o RPM::Interactive=false -o quiet=1
> 
> But unfortunately, in recent versions those two options don't work 
> anymore: RPM::Interactive=false produces progress information like that:
> 
> %% 0.000000
> %% 1.683160
> %% 2.925474
> %% 4.167788
> 
> That's because RPM::Interactive=false sets the rpm option --percent (in 
> pkgRPMExtPM::ExecRPM).

OK, sorry, that was nonsense...

The real reason is:

Depending on RPM::Interactive, two different "Progress" classes are used:

-------------------- 8< --------------------
    if (_config->FindB("RPM::Interactive",true)) {
       Prog = new InstHashProgress(*_config);
    } else {
       Prog = new InstPercentProgress(*_config);
    }
-------------------- 8< --------------------

Unfortunately there is no progress output that is suitable for a 
redirecting output to a log-file.

Are there any plans to (re-)implement such a feature?
Cheers,
--leo
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