Basically, if I understand correctly: on s390, TERM=dumb. And dumb terminals are so dumb they don't even understand "\r". So curl needs to do something smarter (or, perhaps, dumber) when TERM=dumb. +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #802788 +++ Description of problem: Downloading a rootfs image via http/ftp is too verbose when running on s390x via x3270 terminal. See attached boot log [in #802788] from the installation.
raised upstream: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.general/12769
Created attachment 575742 [details] work in progress The attached patch uses libtinfo to detect the $TERM capability to interpret the \r character, if compiled with --with-tinfo. Some review comments are available here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.general/12769/focus=12774 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.general/12769/focus=12776 Now the problem is that the terminfo database lists a working \r for TERM=dumb. Therefore, the attached patch does not solve the reported problem on its own. An alternative approach would be to implement an option of curl to enable the simplified progress bar mode explicitly.
disabled any status bar for now...
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