Bugzilla Bug 217122

During fetching I get the following message and it seems to be stopped:

>>> Emerging (2 of 4) sys-apps/usermode-utilities-20040406-r1 to /
Downloading 'uml_utilities_20040406.tar.bz2'... see /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
for details.
^C

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* This problem is not limited to this particular ebuild, but a general problem.
* The problem occurs only if you emerge more than 1 ebuilds and never with the
first ebuild
* Thus a restart resolves the problem

BUT actually after the restart it "resumes" the fetching process, therfore it
is most probably not a problem in the actual fetching process but in the
feedback to the user.
In any case it is a little bit distracting.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
It just happens from time to time

(In reply to comment #0)
> During fetching I get the following message and it seems to be stopped:
> 
> >>> Emerging (2 of 4) sys-apps/usermode-utilities-20040406-r1 to /
> Downloading 'uml_utilities_20040406.tar.bz2'... see /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
> for details.
> ^C

Did you look in /var/log/emerge-fetch.log to see if it appeared to be fetching?
If it's fetching correctly then there's no need to press ^C.

If you don't like parallel-fetch the you can add FEATURES="-parallel-fetch" to
/etc/make.conf. It's been enabled by default in portage-2.1.5 since most people
seem to like it.

If this is about parallel fetching, than this is indeed neither a bug nor a
problem, but it would be nice to have a short note in the error message, that
would clearify it.

And yes, it seems to be fetching, since after a restart the new fetching
process starts higher than 0%.

Maybe something like this be more clear:

Downloading 'uml_utilities_20040406.tar.bz2' in a background process. See
/var/log/emerge-fetch.log for details.

Here's what the new message will look like:

 * Fetching 'uml_utilities_20040406.tar.bz2' in the background. To
 * view fetch progress, run `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in
 * another terminal.

This is fixed in 2.1.5_rc3.