Suggestion for a progress counter for port install/upgrade

[Eric Gallager]

This is http://trac.macports.org/ticket/5001



On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:49 PM, <MK-MacPorts at techno.ms> wrote:

> Hi MacPorts core devs,
>
> just now I once again missed a feature I wish was there in MP.
>
> If I install a lot of ports (when I am setting up a machine from scratch,
> like now) or upgrade an installation which hadn’t been upgraded for a
> longer time I am overwhelmed by the amount of lines flooding my console…
>
> I would be happy a few additional lines informing me about the progress
> e.g. like this
> —
> —>  Installing 193 ports
> —>  (1/193) === Port skrooge ===
> --->  Fetching skrooge
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for skrooge
> --->  Extracting skrooge
> --->  Configuring skrooge
> --->  Building Scrooge
> --->  Staging skrooge into destroot
> --->  Deactivating skrooge-devel @0.8.0-1215845_0
> --->  Cleaning skrooge-devel
> --->  Computing dependencies for skrooge
> --->  Installing skrooge @0.8.0.6_0
> --->  Activating skrooge @0.8.0.6_0
> --->  Cleaning scrooge
> —>  (2/193) === Port blablah ===
> --->  Fetching blablah
> .
> .
> .
> —
> where of course to be installed dependencies would also count.
>
> Objections?
>
> Greets,
> Marko
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