Hi, is there any progress on fixing the behavior of the -q flag? Now (as of aptitude/0.6.1.3-3) it seems that the intended effect of the -q flag is documented in the man page:
| -q[=<n>], --quiet[=<n>] | Suppress all incremental progress indicators, thus making the | output loggable. This may be supplied multiple times to make the | program quieter, but unlike apt-get, aptitude does not enable -y | when -q is supplied more than once. | | The optional =<n> may be used to directly set the amount of | quietness (for instance, to override a setting in | /etc/apt/apt.conf); it causes the program to behave as if -q had | been passed exactly <n> times. However, the actual effect does not seem to correspond to what is advertised... # aptitude -q -y install most > /tmp/test-q1.log produces the attached output, which is full of partial progress percentages and ^M characters. I personally don't mind a single -q leaves some Reading/Building/... messages in the output: what I really would love to see suppressed are those ^M characters and the progress percentages. # aptitude -q=2 -y install most > /tmp/test-q2.log and # aptitude -q=10 -y install most > /tmp/test-q10.log produce identical outputs: # diff -sq /tmp/test-q1.log /tmp/test-q2.log Files /tmp/test-q1.log and /tmp/test-q2.log are identical # diff -sq /tmp/test-q1.log /tmp/test-q10.log Files /tmp/test-q1.log and /tmp/test-q10.log are identical In other words, the -q=<n> flag does not seem to have *any* effect... Please let me know. -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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