| Summary: | Remaining task size and time needed on top line installation dialog | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1> |
| Component: | RPM Packages | Assignee: | Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | marja11, thierry.vignaud |
| Version: | Cauldron | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Source RPM: | rpmdrake | CVE: | |
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Description
Kenneth Marcy
2016-09-10 23:25:50 CEST
An indication of an estimated size on the hard drive platter or SSD capacity after installation would be useful information before initiating installation at least for those selecting a task, as opposed to those selecting individual packages. If I had known this would take all Saturday mid-day and afternoon, I would have done the games install overnight. The download speed on this landline DSL connection varies between 345 and 351 KiB. An indication of how that translates to remaining task installation time would be useful. task-games pulls in many games. last time i installed it it needed ~ 20GB of space on my disk. when you selected the task package, didn't you see a message about all additional packages that would be installed, and didn't you see how much space would be needed at the bottom of the selection screen? even if needed disk space doesn't equal total download size, it is a good indication CC:
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marja11 This machine has plenty of available space, so I didn't even look at the total space needed. What I didn't realize, and what the need for the status report reflects, is the time remaining to finish the installation given the delivery network speed. Wireless might be faster, or at least a different speed, and thus require a different amount of time, so a rate-sensitive tool would be preferable. Changing this to an enhancement request, because this is not about an rpmdrake feature that got lost, but about a feature that would be nice to have. Enhancements usually get fixed in cauldron first, and will then end up in the next stable release. I don't know of options when using urpmi, dnf or rpm to install packages that do exactly what you want: show the remaining size of (part of) packages to be downloaded and the remaining time to finish the installation of all the packages that you chose to install. That gives me the feeling that this feature is not easy to add to rpmdrake at all! Version:
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Cauldron (In reply to Kenneth Marcy from comment #4) It's machine depending. It takes time to adapt at begining of pkg installation though> This machine has plenty of available space, so I didn't even look at the > total space needed. What I didn't realize, and what the need for the status > report reflects, is the time remaining to finish the installation given the > delivery network speed. Wireless might be faster, or at least a different > speed, and thus require a different amount of time, so a rate-sensitive tool > would be preferable. CC:
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thierry.vignaud Ah you're speaking about rpmdrake Source RPM:
drakxtools =>
rpmdrake |