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
This was removed, because the progress output of "curl" was buggy and significantly slowed down the download and/or cluttered serial consoles. Sorry.
See bug 817301 and bug 814713
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?
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.