Re: anaconda verbosity

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On 04/12/2012 11:53 AM, Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:
    So on Friday I used the netinstall to upgrade my baremetal F15 system
to F17. Went well and I'm enjoying F17 so far. However I noticed that
anaconda is um... too quiet?
[...]
very little HD activity, no UI etc. I ended up stracing anaconda and
noticed it was downloading the rpm .hdr files. There were a few times
(the upgrade took about 3 hours on my quad core i7 PC) where I was
wondering if it was frozen. I'm wondering if anaconda could be slightly
more verbose?
[...]
    Perhaps the level of detail is sufficient and I'm the only one who
wants to know what is happening?

You're absolutely right, and it's not just anaconda---it's very useful to be able to figure out what the system is doing. It has huge performance implications---if we want our systems to be more responsive, we have to be looking for performance bottlenecks, and application status and tracing are the right tools.

Unfortunately, tracing has negative security implications and there's an ongoing SELinux discussion about disabling tracing by default, systemwide. I don't like that idea, even though it's fairly easy to override.
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