Bug 854171

Summary:	dracut no longer displays progress of downloading files
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Kamil Páral <kparal>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	dracut-maint
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	dracut-maint, harald, jonathan, wwoods
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Description Kamil Páral 2012-09-04 09:01:00 UTC

Description of problem:
If I use anaconda with inst.repo=http://, the progress of downloading stage2 image is no longer shown. It just waits and waits and waits and bam - prints out the statistics. That is very unfriendly. It used to work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 18 Alpha TC5

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2012-09-06 09:41:45 UTC

This was removed, because the progress output of "curl" was buggy and significantly slowed down the download and/or cluttered serial consoles. Sorry.

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2012-09-06 09:44:31 UTC

See bug 817301 and bug 814713

Comment 3 Kamil Páral 2012-09-06 13:28:12 UTC

I see. OTOH, if the download takes 5 minutes, the user might be certain it is stuck, because completely nothing is printed out.

Could you please at least print out "Downloading file foo..." ?

Is it technically possible to at least print out a dot/percentage number every ten seconds, so that it is clear it is not dead?

Comment 4 Kamil Páral 2012-09-10 13:47:20 UTC

I found out the progress _is_ printed out, every circa 25 seconds. The output is not exactly easy to read, but that doesn't matter so much. So I take back the report, all is fine, thanks.