The updates firehose

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 12 June 2007 16:47:19 Colin Walters wrote:
> I can't think of much from the Mugshot code that would be directly
> reusable for package installation stats.  Desktop applications people
> are interested in (what Mugshot tracks) and RPM packages installed on a
> computer are only distantly related.
>
> At least on the client side I'm not sure how much more complicated it
> would get than a POST of the output of rpm -qa to a fedora server (i.e.
> a few lines of Python) in /etc/cron.whatever.

It's not about what is installed, but rather what is used.  So just getting a 
list of packages installed is not helpful (much).

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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