On 8/5/20 5:40 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
Is there some way we could get the initrd rebuild to be more verbose,
so that it doesn't appear to hang? It would be nice to get feedback
that something is happening, especially on an older, slower system
that takes a long time for this step.
While the process CAN be made more verbose, it won't help any. RPM
scriptlets are actually not supposed to generate output; both rpm and
yum (and by extension dnf) buffer scriptlet output so that any messages
that are issued will all be seen after the entire scriptlet has run.
The same thing is true for say the ELrepo kmods, such as kmod-nvidia.
That rpm needs to rebuild the initrd, and even issues a message saying
something like 'this may take a while' or similar, but you won't get
that message until the scriptlet doing the initrd rebuild has finished.
This is one area I think the Debian packaging system is a bit superior,
in that dpkg's can issue progress reports and similar. But rpm has been
this way for a really really long time, ever since I maintained the
PostgreSQL RPMset from 1999 to 2004.
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