Mandrake has a -p option in bzip2 which shows progress as a percentage while a file is being compressed/decompressed. I extracted the patch and am about to submit it once I get to the bug report where attachments can be added. According to their website, they are OK with others using their patches. From http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/legal-faq: "All code developed and distributed by Mandrakesoft is released under the General Public License or equivalent. Mandrakesoft Download Edition products only include software covered by a Free Software/Open Source license. Mandrakesoft Commercial products include proprietary third-party software products, which contain their own licensing models. " The feature could be improved if someone feels up to it (e.g. it leaves the cursor in a strange position for future output of characters, and the progress resolution might not be ideal), but it's an option anyway and it's better than nothing as is, in my opinion. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 51313 [details, diff] Patch for bzip2 -p against version 1.0.2
added to 1.0.2-r5, thanks
Created attachment 213420 [details, diff] Patch to bzip (replace existing progress patch) - supports large files Updated to support large files ('ftello' replaced with 'ftell')
In addition to hacking this up, I found the original author: http://www.vanheusden.com/Linux/ and e-mailed my update to him as well. Justin
As this is Resolved Fixed, Justin, are you sure the maintainers will see your new patch from message #3? I'd really like to see this, since bzip2 -p is essentially useless for me without large file support.
I believe nobody saw the second patch from Justin Binns due to this bug being marked resolved, as there seems to have been no further comment on this bug in the last year and a bit. The bug still exists, so I've posted #365639 and pointed here for reference.
