Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 134061
rpm -Uvh proto://someurl/pkg.rpm should display a download progress bar
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: Sometimes it happens, that I need to download a rpm from an external source (ftp or http). I don't download it via wget or ncftp, but directly install it via rpm -Uvh proto://someurl/pkg.rpm. It would be nice if rpm displays a progessbar (as wget or ncftp does), while downloading this package. Especially with huge packages (eg. kernel rpm), you are wondering how long this action will take... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.3.2-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: See description... Additional info:
Progress bars are displayed if the size of the package is known a priori: bash$ sudo rpm -Uvh file://localhost/var/tmp/time-1.7-24.i386.rpm warning: file://localhost/var/tmp/time-1.7-24.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:time ########################################### [100%] Ascertaining package size is dependent on http: and ftp: protocol peculiarities, and is dependent on server implementation and configuration.