Long running operations should be timed activities

Summary

Trying buildstream master, I found a couple instances where seems just hanging there without telling what it is doing.

Steps to reproduce

Just run bst build on a "slow" machine (either actually slow, or with some IO heavy background task).

What is the current bug behavior?

  • When starting up, bst hangs a little before printing anything as it removes the extract folder (side note: this isn't very good for parallel installability with bst 1)
  • bst hangs after SUCCESS Checking sources before going on to the next step.

What is the expected correct behavior?

A timed activity, and possibly progress report.

Possible fixes

Other relevant information

  • BuildStream version affected: master