Do not print build commands for every element being built #2142

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1. abderrahim

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   on Jul 9, 2026
2. abderrahim commented on Jul 9, 2026

   

   abderrahim

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   I'm not sure I fully understand what you're referring to. Are you referring to the "Running commands" detail output which include the command that is being run? What's the information that "is logged per element already"? Can you please be more explicit and provide examples?
3. ada-magicat commented on Jul 9, 2026

   

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   Are you referring to the "Running commands" detail output which include the command that is being run?

   This is indeed what I am referring to. I do not think it is particularly useful to do it pre-emptively for every element that is being built in the interactive output and probably not in the main CI output either when element logs exist. Currently what gets printed is:

   [--:--:--] START   core/gnome-characters.bst: Running commands
   
       meson setup [...]
       [20 or so lines of output]
       Message contains 47 additional lines
   

   This output is truncated and passes by really fast, so I do not really see the use of it if you need to troubleshoot something.

   What's the information that "is logged per element already"?

   If you run bst artifact log core/gnome-characters.bst you get the full untruncated output of which commands were run for that element's build, which can be useful for troubleshooting

   On build failure you also get a print of the last few commands where the build failed, which can be useful, but this issue is about doing it for every build pre-emptively when no failure has occurred.

   I'm not sure I fully understand what you're referring to.

   I rushed writing this issue, apologies for that. I will change the title to something more descriptive.
4. ada-magicat

   changed the title [-]Do not print build instructions every time[/-] [+]Do not print build commands for every element being built[/+] on Jul 9, 2026