Description of problem: Size and time information about the games task needs to be available before the task is initiated, and should be updated dynamically as it proceeds. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia 5 64-bit How reproducible: I haven't reproduced it because the initial installation via DSL landline is still continuing after four hours. How long does this process require? Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a clean install 2. Update packages 3. Select Add Software, select Games, select task-games 4. Initiate the installation 5. Wait and wait and wait without status information while installation proceeds. 6. Yes, I do see glimpses of a fraction like xyz/zzz, but that is informative only about that particular packages location in the queue, and does not give overall summary status information about remaining size and time for the task.
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: (none) => marja11Component: Installer => RPM PackagesAssignee: bugsquad => mageiatoolsSource RPM: packages installation dialog box => drakxtools
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: 5 => CauldronSeverity: normal => enhancement
(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: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Ah you're speaking about rpmdrake
Source RPM: drakxtools => rpmdrake