Bug 45441

Summary:	Giving a "compile progress" status bar on emerge's
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Daniel Harper <djharper_uk>
Component:	Conceptual/Abstract Ideas	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Daniel Harper 2004-03-22 14:28:26 UTC

Portage is superb, but it lacks one thing that could make it brilliant. A progress  bar that states how far it has got into the compile of a certain package. It's something that annoys me about portage, not knowing when my package will finish compiling. 

Like on a download (wget), you get a little progress bar to state how far it has got in the download, with the percentage, speed and ETA next to it. 

(======>  ) 75%   50kbps   ETA: 30s

Wouldn't it be great if compiling had this ability, imagine being able to actually know how far the compile is in, the the ETA. 

(=========>         )   43%  compiling: kdebase-3.2.1  ETA: 20m5s

I hope you take this idea into reccomendation, it'd be excellent! 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Rob Holland 2004-05-24 13:46:39 UTC

This has been suggested so many times. It is not feasible to try and work out how far through a compile we are. There is just no sensible way to do it.

Suggest this is closed as WONTFIX

Comment 2 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-24 14:18:48 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48418 ***