Bug 359188

Summary:	make -q really quiet (don't display progress)
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Ian Marlier <ian.marlier>
Component:	libzypp	Assignee:	Jan Kupec <jkupec>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	stephen
Version:	Final
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Description Ian Marlier 2008-02-06 13:34:19 UTC

When running zypper, a progress meter appears prior to result output.  For example, when running `zypper lu`, there is a progress meter as zypper reads each repository, and then another as it reads the list of installed packages.

This is a nice feature when running zypper interactively.  However, it complicates the process of running zypper non-interactively and then doing something textual with the results, such as mailing them via a pipe.

It appears that this behavior does not change when zypper is given command line options such as -q (quiet) or -n (non-interactive).

It would be very nice to have a flag that would suppress the output of the progress meter.

(Note: I'm not sure about the license/etc for zypper, but assuming that it's open I'd be happy to take a stab at implementing this.)

Reference also the (brief) thread on the opensuse list, which has slightly more information about the specific problem that I am trying to solve here: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-02/msg00444.html

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2008-02-06 13:51:02 UTC

this is a dup of a bug I don't remember :)

Comment 2 Jan Kupec 2008-02-06 14:52:41 UTC

It is related to bug 336333, but not a duplicate.

(In reply to comment #0 from Ian Marlier)
> It appears that this behavior does not change when zypper is given command line
> options such as -q (quiet) or -n (non-interactive).
> 
> It would be very nice to have a flag that would suppress the output of the
> progress meter.

The -q options is meant to be really quiet, so that is what you want after it gets fixed.

> (Note: I'm not sure about the license/etc for zypper, but assuming that it's
> open I'd be happy to take a stab at implementing this.)

It's GPL, you're welcome to participate :O)

We already have a plan to deal with zypper's output, which, after implemented, will deal also with this bug. The main idea is to add --xml option to switch zypper to a well defined xml output. This will need a major change in the way the output is written throughout the code and we'll keep bugs like this in mind doing it. Currently i'm trying to design classes and functions which will be used for output.

The fix for this -q vs. progress output bug is probably easy, but i decided not to do it until the above is done (which i hope will be soon (this month)).

btw: see http://en.opensuse.org/Zypper/Development

Comment 3 Jan Kupec 2008-02-15 09:15:34 UTC

*** Bug 343671 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Jan Kupec 2008-02-22 14:05:01 UTC

--xmlout almost done, and this bug fixed already. In svn. To be in zypper 0.10.1

Comment 5 Jan Kupec 2008-02-26 14:59:14 UTC

submitted