[bitbake-devel] [PATCH v3] fetch2: implement progress support

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:26:10 Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Implement progress reporting support specifically for the fetchers. For
> fetch tasks we don't necessarily know which fetcher will be used (we
> might initially be fetching a git:// URI, but if we instead download a
> mirror tarball we may fetch that over http using wget). These programs
> also have different abilities as far as reporting progress goes (e.g.
> wget gives us percentage complete and rate, git gives this some of the
> time depending on what stage it's at). Additionally we filter out the
> progress output before it makes it to the logs, in order to prevent the
> logs filling up with junk.
> 
> At the moment this is only implemented for the wget and git fetchers
> since they are the most commonly used (and svn doesn't seem to support
> any kind of progress output, at least not without doing a relatively
> expensive remote file listing first).
> 
> Line changes such as the ones you get in git's output as it progresses
> don't make it to the log files, you only get the final state of the line
> so the logs aren't filled with progress information that's useless after
> the fact.
> 
> Part of the implementation for [YOCTO #5383].
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes since v2:
>  * Use -v instead of --show-progress in the wget command line since the
>    latter is only available with wget 1.16 and newer, and we still need
>    to support distros that have older versions than that. This does
>    override the default of -nv if present (which it will be via the
>    FETCHCMD_wget set in bitbake.conf within OE), but the added verbosity
>    is minimal since the progress information is filtered out of the logs
>    by the progress handler.

So, you asked me to send this, but unfortunately it looks like you merged the 
old version - I guess I should send an additional patch now.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre