port command should let me, optionally, see times

[ray@…]

I usually do something like:

% date ; port install blender ; date

This does not actually give me what I want.

If it causes the download of 5 things, and it is sitting there on the last one five hours later, I want to know: Did each one take 1 hour, or did the first take 5 seconds each and the last 5 hours?

As it gives you each line below, it should, if I have called it with an option, give me a timestamp:

--->  Fetching coreutils
--->  Attempting to fetch coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2 from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for coreutils
--->  Extracting coreutils
--->  Configuring coreutils
--->  Building coreutils with target all
--->  Staging coreutils into destroot
--->  Installing coreutils 5.2.1_1
--->  Activating coreutils 5.2.1_1
--->  Fetching ghostscript

Then it could be:

Wed Jul  7 10:15:49 PDT 2004 --->  Fetching coreutils
Wed Jul  7 10:15:49 PDT 2004 --->  Attempting to fetch coreutils-5.2.1.tar.bz2 from ftp://ftp.gnu.
org/gnu/coreutils
Wed Jul  7 10:15:49 PDT 2004 --->  Verifying checksum(s) for coreutils
Wed Jul  7 10:15:49 PDT 2004 --->  Extracting coreutils
Wed Jul  7 10:15:49 PDT 2004 --->  Configuring coreutils
Wed Jul  7 10:15:49 PDT 2004 --->  Building coreutils with target all
Wed Jul  7 10:15:49 PDT 2004 --->  Staging coreutils into destroot
Wed Jul  7 10:15:49 PDT 2004 --->  Installing coreutils 5.2.1_1
Wed Jul  7 10:15:49 PDT 2004 --->  Activating coreutils 5.2.1_1
Wed Jul  7 10:15:49 PDT 2004 --->  Fetching ghostscript

Of course, the times would chnage. You know what I mean.

[olegb@…]

This is a suggested enhancement, not a bug.

[blb@…]

Sounds like a generalization of bug 507 (noted for tracking purposes).

[olegb@…]

* This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 507 *