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Bug 806426 - curl --progress-bar is too verbose on s390 (x3270 terminal)
Summary: curl --progress-bar is too verbose on s390 (x3270 terminal)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: curl
Version: 17
Hardware: s390x
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kamil Dudka
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 802788
Blocks: 799508 814713 fedora19rtt
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-23 17:30 UTC by Will Woods
Modified: 2013-08-01 20:02 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of: 802788
: 814713 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-08-01 20:01:45 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
work in progress (11.38 KB, patch)
2012-04-06 13:09 UTC, Kamil Dudka 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Will Woods 2012-03-23 17:30:07 UTC 
Basically, if I understand correctly: on s390, TERM=dumb. And dumb terminals are so dumb they don't even understand "\r". So curl needs to do something smarter (or, perhaps, dumber) when TERM=dumb.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #802788 +++

Description of problem:
Downloading a rootfs image via http/ftp is too verbose when running on s390x via x3270 terminal. See attached boot log [in #802788] from the installation.
Comment 1 Kamil Dudka 2012-04-02 11:24:53 UTC 
raised upstream:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.general/12769
Comment 2 Kamil Dudka 2012-04-06 13:09:51 UTC 
Created attachment 575742 [details]
work in progress

The attached patch uses libtinfo to detect the $TERM capability to interpret the \r character, if compiled with --with-tinfo.  Some review comments are available here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.general/12769/focus=12774
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.curl.general/12769/focus=12776

Now the problem is that the terminfo database lists a working \r for TERM=dumb.  Therefore, the attached patch does not solve the reported problem on its own.

An alternative approach would be to implement an option of curl to enable the simplified progress bar mode explicitly.
Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2012-09-27 15:12:50 UTC 
disabled any status bar for now...
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