Can the system update displayed on GUI similar to pacman update ?
The output more readable.
Quote from: Karla on July 22, 2026, 10:28:41 AMthe system update displayed on GUI similar to pacman update
Examples ?!
What's pacman? I mean besides an 80's arcade game ...
It is the package manager for Arch Linux.
I mean the following:
1. Download rate
2. Size of the packages
3. ETA
4. Better download progress
Pacman is the package manager of Arch Linux.
Welcome to the wonderful world of BSD, Karla!
As much as we all love the colorful, fast CLI magic of pacman(well I prefer apt/dpkg), expecting an enterprise-grade firewall GUI to behave like an Arch Linux terminal is a bit like walking into a modern car cockpit and asking for the gear shift of an 80s truck.
OPNsense keeps things a bit more structured under the hood for a reason. Hang in there... you'll get used to the Web-GUI life soon enough!
But if you want you can use my monit update howto and send yourself some nice ASCII Art via Mail ;D
I am using Arch based Linux for 10 years now.
Before Suse and others.
Quote from: Karla on July 24, 2026, 10:56:52 AMI mean the following:
1. Download rate
2. Size of the packages
3. ETA
4. Better download progress
A screenshot sometimes says a thousand words! ;)
As someone who has used :
- FreeBSD pkg and cvsup+/usr/ports/ in the past.
- Many releases of RaspBian a.k.a. Raspberry Pi OS.
- Regular Debian.
- Ubuntu/Kubuntu/etc.
- Some .rpm based distros like Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS
(or whatever they call it these days...)I really don't see the issue with the OPNsense webGUI Update/Upgrade procedure being as it is right now ?!
(Except for the fact that it shouldn't do everything on it's own and should stop after each step has been completed, but that's not a big deal and should not give you any issues if you read the Release Changes carefully each time!)But that does not mean it can't/shouldn't be improved if the team feels like doing so ofcourse :)
Here is the output of pacman -Syu:
systemd-resolvconf-261.2-1-x86_64 3,4 KiB 52,6 KiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------------------------------] 100%
systemd-sysvcompat-261.2-1-x86_64 6,6 KiB 96,5 KiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------------------------------] 100%
systemd-libs-261.2-1-x86_64 1447,9 KiB 4,49 MiB/s 00:00 [----------------------------------------------------] 100%
systemd-261.2-1-x86_64 10,4 MiB 9,64 MiB/s 00:01 [----------------------------------------------------] 100%
Gesamt (4/4) 11,8 MiB 10,7 MiB/s 00:01 [----------------------------------------------------] 100%
(4/4) Schlüssel im Schlüsselbund werden geprüft [----------------------------------------------------] 100%
(4/4) Paket-Integrität wird überprüft [----------------------------------------------------] 100%
(4/4) Paket-Dateien werden geladen [----------------------------------------------------] 100%
(4/4) Auf Dateikonflikte wird geprüft [----------------------------------------------------] 100%
:: Paketänderungen werden verarbeitet ...
(1/4) Aktualisiert wird systemd-libs [----------------------------------------------------] 100%
(2/4) Aktualisiert wird systemd [----------------------------------------------------] 100%