#887 Issue `closed`: get rid of progress-bar code¶

Labels: cleanup, fixed / solved / done

gdha opened issue at 2016-06-20 14:27:¶

rear version (/usr/sbin/rear -V): 1.18
OS version (cat /etc/rear/os.conf or lsb_release -a): n/a
rear configuration files (cat /etc/rear/site.conf or cat /etc/rear/local.conf): n/a
Brief description of the issue: issue #874 (2>&8 or >&8 usage)
Work-around, if any:

We are not using the progress-bar code for years anymore (the >&8 redirection), so the question was asked, why not get rid of it and capture the code in the logging (or not)?

jsmeix commented at 2016-06-21 07:24:¶

I could do it together with
https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/885

jsmeix commented at 2016-06-21 07:36:¶

Only FYI regarding https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/874#issuecomment-227135652 (excerpt):

The progress bar mechanism would swallow all data.

I assume that with a "tee" method as in https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/885#issuecomment-226787322
it is in general possible to avoid to "swallow all" messages.

With such a "tee" method it should be in general possible
to have all messages at various places at the same time,
e.g. on the terminal puls in the log plus for a progres bar.

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-22 14:24:¶

I need to fix all the old deprecated usage of '>&8'
as precondition for https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/885
cf. https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/885#issuecomment-310393496

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-26 12:28:¶

This is no longer a precondition
for https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/885
but can be done any time later as needed,
for for an explanation why see
https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/1391#issuecomment-311040948

jsmeix commented at 2017-06-27 10:09:¶

Actually with https://github.com/rear/rear/pull/1391 merged
this specific issue here is fixed because via
https://github.com/rear/rear/commit/4f4efb37db4c4ee7d1b05f247101c1680e1f8c31
I replaced all old deprecated usage of '>&8' with '>/dev/null'
so that there is no longer any old deprecated usage of '>&8'.

Regarding how to fix the old deprecated usage of '>&8' properly
I submitted the general issue https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/1395

[Export of Github issue for rear/rear.]

#887 Issue closed: get rid of progress-bar code¶