RFE: 'port upgrade' could report # of packages to be upgraded

[mguthaus@…]

This is a pretty simple user-interface suggestion. As I sit here waiting for DP to finishing upgrading, I have no idea how man packages are left. Windows, OSX, etc always have "progress bars", but these are typically in units of time and so could not be implemented in DP. However, a status of the number of packages would be VERY useful. For example,

--->  Cleaning libgnomecanvas
--->  Finished package 27 of 47
--->  Fetching libgnome

Perhaps, even at the beginning of doing an upgrade, give a message:

"47 packages to be upgraded. Continue (Y/N)?"

I can get the information of which packages are going to be updated with "port outdated", so this is just a matter of displaying the information.

Thanks,

Matt

[mguthaus@…]

Another addition... at the end you can add:

Sucessfully upgraded 42 packages. 5 had errors.

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #15167. #15939 is not a duplicate but is a related idea.

I don't think we want to burden MacPorts with interactive prompting like "Continue (Y/N)?".

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

port(1) is intentionally non-interactive, but MacPorts doesn't have to provide only one interface.

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

Cc Me!

[mkae (Marko Käning)]

Any update on this one in the light of MacPorts recent overhaul??

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Replying to jmroot:

port(1) is intentionally non-interactive, but MacPorts doesn't have to provide only one interface.

Ok this has changed; now MacPorts is interactive... This might be a topic for a separate bug, but on the topic of interactivity, I'm thinking that one thing that could improve it would be to add a default timeout value for all interactive prompts? For Fink it's 60 seconds, IIRC

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

In 82964b81c2bf9bf3a568b7cd3017f1d10019b989/macports-base (master):

upgrade: add a progress counter

For each port to be upgraded or installed, prints a line just before
performing that operation, showing that port's position in the list and
the total number of ports in the list.

This required refactoring macports::upgrade to first generate a complete
list of operations to be performed, and then perform them afterwards,
so that the total number is known before the first one is performed.
This approach should hopefully enable other improvements in future.

In order to show an accurate total across what would previously have
been multiple calls to the upgrade proc, a new interface
macports::upgrade_multi is added, which allows upgrading multiple
"top-level" ports in one call.

Fixes: #5001