Bug 65498 – mirrorselect -D displays garbage on screen (ver. 0.84)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Octoploid 2004-09-26 23:17:37 UTC]

Invocing mirrorselect -a -D -s3 creates a lot of garbage in the terminal,while running.
It actually displays the binary testfile it downloads from the servers.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.mirrorselect -a -D -s3


Actual Results:  
mirrorselect somehow redirects some of the binary testfiles to stdout.

Expected Results:  
Should not display the binary files.

[Comment 1 Octoploid 2004-09-26 23:58:11 UTC]

A quick patch, that solves the problem:
187c187
<                       wget -t 1 -C off -T 25 -O - ${i}/distfiles/mirrorselect-test 2>/dev/null
---
>                       wget -t 1 -C off -T 25 -O - ${i}/distfiles/mirrorselect-test >/dev/null

[Comment 2 Octoploid 2004-09-27 00:09:21 UTC]

Created attachment 40516 [details, diff]
Fix the screen garbage problem

[Comment 3 Martin von Gagern 2004-10-09 09:57:07 UTC]

This seems to be a duplicate of bug 61496
See also bug 62899

[Comment 4 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) 2004-10-09 11:20:34 UTC]

see bug 61496