[pca] Running summary

[Rajiv Gunja]

Martin,
It looks like the "Usage" page on your web site is missing. It shows up
blank.
Thanks

-GGR

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Rajiv G Gunja
Blog: http://ossrocks.blogspot.com


On 24 February 2010 03:34, Martin Paul <martin at par.univie.ac.at> wrote:

> Craig Bell wrote:
>
>> A casual request: Could pca show a brief session summary after each
>> patch? Perhaps something like:
>>
>> "Done -- 12:34:56 PST -- 00:10:30 elapsed, 02:30:40 total -- 103
>> successful, 1 skipped, 0 failed"
>>
>
> I've recommended wrapper scripts for that in the past, too, but I
> understand that this might be of interest to more pca users than just you.
> Plus, it's much easier for pca to capture and display this data, so it makes
> sense to include it.
>
> You already addressed the problems I might have implementing this: I
> wouldn't want to add a new command line option, so it should be integrated
> into the default output. On the other hand, I don't want to add a whole lot
> of new output which might create confusion, or even break existing wrapper
> scripts.
>
> I have now added support for the needed data output to the current
> development release of pca (20100223-02, get it from pca's "Installation"
> page), using a concise format. Instead of just "Done", it now shows a line
> like this:
>
>  Done (08:53:40/00:01:34/00:02:48, 1/1, 1/0/0)
>
> The docs have a new paragraph explaining the numbers:
>
>  After the installation of each patch, a status line shows
>  the current time, the time used to install the patch and the
>  total run time. It also includes the current/total number of
>  patches and counts for successful, skipped and failed patch
>  installs.
>
> Of course I'm open to suggestions of alternative output formats. The goal
> is to be both human and machine readable (for wrappers) and I want to keep
> all lines shorter than 80 characters. If anybody has an idea of an extra
> data field to be added, let me know.
>
> Martin.
>
>
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