From ee393d3a6bcecbfb7afe9390a0872c2fd175f1f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "B. Watson" <urchlay@slackware.uk>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:40:05 -0400
Subject: Multiple verbosity levels (-q/--quiet added).

---
 TODO     |  5 ++---
 greypool | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index c3a9bb2..278b05b 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 TODO list for greypool
 
-- add verbosity level. default to 1. --quiet makes it 0,
-  --verbose makes it 2. add "verbose()" that works like info(), but
-  only if $verbosity > 1.
+- handle the case where a project has more than one maintainer...
+  or no maintainer. this does't happen with SlackBuilds.org.
 
 - handle ^C gracefully during wget downloads.
 
diff --git a/greypool b/greypool
index fc2ba8b..055c186 100755
--- a/greypool
+++ b/greypool
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ use POSIX 'strftime';
 use feature 'unicode_strings';
 
 $VERSION = "0.0.0";
-$verbose = $force_download = $html = 0;
+$force_download = $html = 0;
+$verbose = 1; # 0 = silent, 1 = info messages, 2 = debug
 $stamp = strftime("%Y%m%d", localtime);
 
 # defaults for HTML colors
@@ -59,6 +60,11 @@ sub info {
 	warn "$SELF: " . join(" ", @_). "\n";
 }
 
+sub debug {
+	return unless $verbose > 1;
+	warn "$SELF: " . join(" ", @_). "\n";
+}
+
 sub read_file {
 	undef local $/;
 	local @ARGV = shift;
@@ -68,7 +74,7 @@ sub read_file {
 sub parse_opts {
 	Getopt::Long::Configure("bundling");
 	GetOptions(
-		"verbose|v" => \$verbose,
+		"verbose|v" => sub { $verbosity = 2; }
 		"force|f" => \$force_download,
 		"html|h" => \$html,
 		"html-fragment|H" => \$html_frag,
@@ -80,6 +86,7 @@ sub parse_opts {
 		"color|colour|c" => \$color_output,
 		"mono|no-color|no-colour|m" => sub { $color_output = 0; },
 		"config-dir|C=s" => \$privdir,
+		"quiet|q" => sub { $verbosity = 0; },
 	) or fatal("error in command line options (try --help).");
 
 	$html = 1 if $html_frag;
@@ -351,7 +358,7 @@ sub read_config_file {
 	$cachedir = $privdir . "/cache/$email";
 	$cachestampfile = $cachedir . "/stamp";
 
-	if($verbose) {
+	if($verbose > 1) {
 		warn <<EOF;
 config summary:
 cachedir: $cachedir
@@ -369,7 +376,7 @@ EOF
 sub decode_file {
 	$_ = shift;
 
-	info("decoding JSON file $_");
+	debug("decoding JSON file $_");
 
 	eval {
 		$j = decode_json(read_file($_));
@@ -433,7 +440,7 @@ sub parse_file {
 		}
 	}
 
-	info "$count entries in file, last package $lastpkg\n";
+	debug "$count entries in file, last package $lastpkg\n";
 	return $lastpkg eq $firstpkg ? undef : $lastpkg;
 }
 
@@ -504,14 +511,17 @@ sub download {
 
 	my $filename = $cachedir . "/" . $num . ".json";
 	if(!$force_download && (-e $filename)) {
-		info "$filename found in cache, not downloading";
+		debug "$filename found in cache, not downloading";
 		return;
 	}
+	info "downloading JSON file #$num";
+	$download_count++;
+
 	if($no_download && (! -e $filename)) {
 		fatal "-n / --cached option given, but no cached data in $cachedir";
 	}
 
-	my $qopt = $verbose ? "" : "-q";
+	my $qopt = ($verbose > 1) ? "" : "-q";
 
 	my $cmd =
 		"wget " .
@@ -520,7 +530,7 @@ sub download {
 		"-O $filename " .
 		"'$url'";
 
-	info $cmd;
+	debug $cmd;
 	my $status = system($cmd);
 	if($status) {
 		fatal "wget failed, exit status " . ($status >> 8);
@@ -541,6 +551,10 @@ sub generate_report {
 		$lastpkg = parse_file($filecount++);
 	}
 
+	if(!$download_count) {
+		info "using cached data";
+	}
+
 	print_report_header();
 	my $count = 0;
 	if(!keys %report) {
@@ -758,11 +772,16 @@ Comma-separated value output. The first line is a "header" with the
 field names; the rest of the output is one line per package. This
 would fail if someone put a comma in a version number... I<*shrug*>
 
+=item B<-q>, B<--quiet>
+
+Don't print any messages to standard error, except errors and
+warning.
+
 =item B<-v>, B<--verbose>
 
-Print informational messages about what B<greypool> is doing,
+Print extra informational messages about what B<greypool> is doing,
 including the B<wget>(1) progress bar during downloads. Messages go
-to standard error outpu.
+to standard error output.
 
 =item B<-V>, B<--version>
 
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