I have not investigated the reason, but the latest testing version of portage makes wget fetching display the progress using lines instead of the traditional arrow. So >>> Fetching (23 of 255) x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.2 >>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.2-headers.tar.bz2' --2008-10-27 10:55:39-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.2-headers.tar.bz2 Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52, 140.211.166.134, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.238.52|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 2509611 (2.4M) [application/x-tar] Saving to: `/usr/portage/distfiles/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.4.2-headers.tar.bz2' 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 2% 112K 21s 50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 4% 408K 13s 100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 6% 509K 10s 150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 8% 838K 8s 200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 10% 700K 7s 250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 12% 636K 6s 300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 14% 193K 7s 350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 16% 932K 6s 400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 18% 1.34M 5s 450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 20% 2.83M 5s 500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 22% 466K 5s instead of something like (I did a simple wget out of emerge context) Connecting to 10.11.11.74:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /AutoDistro/Scripts ... done. ==> SIZE autodistro ... 687 ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR autodistro ... done. Length: 687 100%[=======================================================>] 687 --.-K/s in 0.009s 2008-10-27 10:56:49 (72.2 KB/s) - `autodistro' saved [687] Reproducible: Always
duplicate of bug #241100
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 241100 ***