Bug 906460

Summary:	Portage provides no visible feedback when blocked on downloading files with --jobs > 1
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Enne Eziarc <gentoo+bugs>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor	CC:	mgorny
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Enne Eziarc 2023-05-15 17:48:39 UTC

An un-fun situation I experienced today:

---
 Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
 >>> Verifying ebuild manifests
 >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-devel/clang-common-16.0.3
[[~15 minutes of dead air here, except the loadavg in the terminal title updating occasionally]]
 >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-libs/glibc-2.37-r3
 >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-devel/gcc-13.1.0-r1
 >>> Running pre-merge checks for dev-lang/rust-bin-1.69.0
 >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-apps/portage-3.0.47
---

It turns out it was downloading [media-fonts/]noto-20230430.tar.gz (1GB), which I wouldn't have ever guessed if I hadn't dug into what it was doing using htop.

I don't have a good proposal for how the UI should look, but right now _everything_ related to fetching distfiles seems to be gated behind --verbose. Could we at least have the "Total download size:" line display unconditionally? That's in line with what most other distros' package managers do.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2023-05-15 18:56:53 UTC

Indeed, I've been hit by that as well.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2023-05-15 19:07:20 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 760893 ***