RFE: 'port upgrade' could report # of packages to be upgraded

[mguthaus@…]

This is a pretty simple user-interface suggestion. As I sit here waiting for DP to finishing upgrading, I have no idea how man packages are left. Windows, OSX, etc always have "progress bars", but these are typically in units of time and so could not be implemented in DP. However, a status of the number of packages would be VERY useful. For example,

--->  Cleaning libgnomecanvas
--->  Finished package 27 of 47
--->  Fetching libgnome

Perhaps, even at the beginning of doing an upgrade, give a message:

"47 packages to be upgraded. Continue (Y/N)?"

I can get the information of which packages are going to be updated with "port outdated", so this is just a matter of displaying the information.

Thanks,

Matt

[mguthaus@…]

Another addition... at the end you can add:

Sucessfully upgraded 42 packages. 5 had errors.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #15167. #15939 is not a duplicate but is a related idea.

I don't think we want to burden MacPorts with interactive prompting like "Continue (Y/N)?".

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

port(1) is intentionally non-interactive, but MacPorts doesn't have to provide only one interface.

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

I don't need interactivity...

...but If I install a lot of ports (e.g. when I am setting up a machine from scratch) or upgrade an installation which hadn’t been upgraded for a longer time I am overwhelmed by the amount of lines flooding my console…

I would be happier if a few additional lines would be informing me about the progress e.g. like this

--->  Installing 193 ports
--->  (1/193) === Port skrooge ===
--->  Fetching skrooge
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for skrooge
--->  Extracting skrooge
--->  Configuring skrooge
--->  Building Scrooge
--->  Staging skrooge into destroot
--->  Deactivating skrooge-devel @0.8.0-1215845_0
--->  Cleaning skrooge-devel
--->  Computing dependencies for skrooge
--->  Installing skrooge @0.8.0.6_0
--->  Activating skrooge @0.8.0.6_0
--->  Cleaning scrooge
--->  (2/193) === Port blablah ===
--->  Fetching blablah
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where of course to be installed dependencies would also count.

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

Any update on this one in the light of MacPorts recent overhaul??

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Replying to jmroot:

port(1) is intentionally non-interactive, but MacPorts doesn't have to provide only one interface.

Ok this has changed; now MacPorts is interactive... This might be a topic for a separate bug, but on the topic of interactivity, I'm thinking that one thing that could improve it would be to add a default timeout value for all interactive prompts? For Fink it's 60 seconds, IIRC