The genkernel manual page states: --debuglevel=<0-5> This controls the out verbosity level of genkernel output - if this is set to 0, minimal debugging is done; if this is set to 5 as much output as possible is given. --debugfile=<outfile> This outputs full debugging data; regardless of --debuglevel to the file <outfile>. By default this is /var/log/genkernel.log. It is not the case that --debugfile causes full debuging output regardless of verbosity level, there is a significant difference in output with and without a --debuglevel. I'm attaching two --debugfile(s) generate with these commands: # genkernel --lvm2 --kernel-config=/tmp/myconfig --debugfile=/tmp/genkernel.out all # genkernel --lvm2 --kernel-config=/tmp/myconfig --debugfile=/tmp/genkernel-debug5.out --debuglevel=5 all It doesn't matter which way this is resolved, but the man page, them embedded documentation, and the behavior ought to be consistent.
Created attachment 99248 [details] debugfile with default debugging level (supposedly 1, from config file)
Created attachment 99249 [details] debugfile with debug level specified as 5
This is in SVN now with the patch from bug #180161
Please test genkernel 3.4.9_prer1 or better. This should be fixed now.
