[PATCH] find-debuginfo: unless -q -q, print messages what big steps we are at

[Denys Vlasenko]

On 6/30/23 15:25, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Denys,
> 
> On Thu, 2023-06-29 at 16:13 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>>> We can give a few messages explaining what general steps we go through:
>>>
>>>      Extracting debug info from N files
>>>      DWARF-compressing N files
>>>      Creating .debug symlinks for symlinks to ELF files
>>>      Copying sources found by 'debugedit -l'
>>>
>>> This is also useful to get a feeling which steps are time consuming.
>>> Kernel builds often need to investigate this aspect. To help a bit more,
>>> add "find-debuginfo: starting" and "find-debuginfo: done" messages too.
>>>
>>> This patch adds these messages.
>>>
>>> Two -q -q options suppress these messages too.
>>
>> I like this idea, but I am wondering if instead of -q -q we should
>> have a -v,--verbose flag for the very verbose output. Then this
>> explanary output could be the default. And -q,--quiet would suppress
>> even those message.
> 
> So this is what I was thinking. What do you think?
> https://code.wildebeest.org/git/user/mjw/debugedit/commit/?h=verbose

Looks good. We will be able to revert

"Suppress 'extracting debug info' noise in build log"

+%if 0%{?fedora}
+%global _find_debuginfo_opts -r -q
+%else
  %global _find_debuginfo_opts -r
+%endif

change in our kernel specfile (always good to have fewer special cases)
and still have what that change intended: not-very-verbose find-debuginfo output.