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Re: ALFS shortcomings
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2007-09-20 14:55:56
M.Canales.es wrote:
> El Jueves, 20 de Septiembre de 2007 20:01, Roger
Merchberger escribió:
> 
>> Having just gotten back into working with LFS on my
new (refurb) dual-core
>> Turion lappy, I thought I'd really like the
progress bar, until it hit
>> 100%, wrapped around & started over. That's
when I figured out (correct me
>> if I'm wrong) that it doesn't show the status of
the package being built,
>> it's just a graphical second count-off timer... am
I right?
> 
> Yes, it's only a time counter. 
> 
> We can't know beforehand how many time a package build
will take on a 
> particular machine, thus there is no proper way, at
least that I know, to 
> draw an actual status bar :-/
> 

This was one of my favourite features of nALFS: In the top
"pane" you'd 
get to see the build process scroll by so you knew exactly
where the 
process was... Now, if only you could do that with Bash 

Al

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