The debuginfod -I/-X regexes operate during traversal to identify those files in need of scanning. The regexes are not used during grooming. This means that if from run to run, the regex changes so that formerly indexed files are excluded from traversal, the data is still retained in the index. This is both good and bad. On one hand, if the underlying data is still available, grooming will preserve the data, and let clients ask for it. On the other hand, if the growing index size is a problem, and one wishes to age no-longer-regex-matching index data out, there is no way. Let's add a debuginfod flag to use regexes during grooming. Specifically, in groom(), where the stat() test exists, also check for regex matching as in scan_source_paths(). Treat failure of the regex the same way as though the file didn't exist.
commit 0ae9b791b47cdee92ac7221e3eead79c83a64a40 Author: Noah <nsanci@redhat.com> Date: Wed Jul 7 14:40:10 2021 -0400 debuginfod: PR27711 - Use -I/-X regexes during groom phase The debuginfod -I/-X regexes operate during traversal to identify those files in need of scanning. The regexes are not used during grooming. This means that if from run to run, the regex changes so that formerly indexed files are excluded from traversal, the data is still retained in the index. This is both good and bad. On one hand, if the underlying data is still available, grooming will preserve the data, and let clients ask for it. On the other hand, if the growing index size is a problem, and one wishes to age no-longer-regex-matching index data out, there is no way. Let's add a debuginfod flag to use regexes during grooming. Specifically, in groom(), where the stat() test exists, also check for regex matching as in scan_source_paths(). Treat failure of the regex the same way as though the file didn't exist. Signed-off-by: Noah Sanci <nsanci@redhat.com>