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Re: apt-get -qq install

On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 Victor Sudakov wrote:

davidson wrote:


I'm trying to quiet apt's output by using `apt-get -qqy` in a CI/CD
pipeline, however I still see ugly stuff like this in my CI/CD log:

Selecting previously unselected package php-common.
(Reading database ...
(Reading database ... 5%
(Reading database ... 10%

[snip]


and this:

Scanning processes... [                                                        ]
Scanning processes... [                                                        ]
Scanning processes... [                                                        ]
Scanning processes... [=                                                       ]
Scanning processes... [=                                                       ]
Scanning processes... [==                                                      ]
Scanning processes... [==                                                      ]

[snip]


Don't you think the `-qq` modifier should spare me these things?


I would expect so too.


I don't actually like the idea of redirecting apt-get's output to
/dev/null because I want to see the list of packages installed, but without
these pseudographics. Do you think it's possible? Any ideas?


In the file

  /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz

I notice there is a stanza that begins like so:

  quiet "<INT>" {
    NoUpdate "<BOOL>"; // never update progress information - included in -q=1
    NoProgress "<BOOL>"; // disables the 0% -> 100% progress on cache generation and stuff

I don't know whether this will help you, but it does look suggestive.


Thank you, how do you activate this option? I've just tried
`apt-get -o quiet::NoProgress=true -qqy ...`


I would do it that way too.


but the "Reading database ... 5%" stuff is still there.


Yeah, after some unsatisfying experimentation I've had no luck either.

Maybe this bug report will interest you:

 #539617 - dpkg: Add option to suppress progress display while reading database
 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=539617


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