[elrepo] Working. This may take some time message

[Phil Perry]

On 23/03/18 16:48, Harry Mallon wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is the “Working. This may take some time” useful at all? From our use on 
> CentOS7 it seems like all of the output of the scripts is bundled up 
> together, so you only see “Working. This may take some time” with all 
> the other output after the fact. Maybe with DNF rather than YUM it works 
> better or some other case? It might be nice to remove it if it has no 
> use to clean up install output.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Harry
> 

Hi Harry,

This was introduced back in the early days of RHEL5, and is displayed at 
the appropriate time when using 'rpm', but as you identify output under 
yum is bundled together and displayed at a less opportune moment.

The original purpose was to indicate to the user that there may be a 
significant delay whilst dracut updates the initramfs for each kernel 
installed on the system (the more installed kernels, the longer it 
takes). Previously some users thought their systems had "hung" and tried 
to escape out of the installation process.

I'm inclined to leave it there on the basis it causes no harm, and still 
serves it's original educational purpose even if yum fails to display 
the message at the most opportune moment in time. We've not since had a 
user report thinking the process had hung.

Happy to discuss further,

Phil