Created attachment 198809 [details] patch There are often thousands of files being fetched, and you have no idea of where you are at.
LGTM. It is a straightforward application of the same progress printing already used for fetching patches.
A commit references this bug: Author: cem Date: Wed Oct 31 17:37:54 UTC 2018 New revision: 339960 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/339960 Log: freebsd-update: add a progress report for the "fetching files..." After patching step is done. PR: 232857 Submitted by: mat@ MFC after: a week Changes: head/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh
It would be so great if this could go into 12.0 0:-)
Maybe this could be merged into stable/12 now so it gets into 12.1.
A commit references this bug: Author: emaste Date: Thu Jan 24 22:25:52 UTC 2019 New revision: 343414 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/343414 Log: MFC r339960 (cem): freebsd-update: add a progress report for the "fetching files..." After patching step is done. PR: 232857 Submitted by: mat Changes: _U stable/12/ stable/12/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh