Metrics and your privacy
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Nov 22 15:48:37 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 09:15 -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:02:18PM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> > Probably the GUID is a bit of a red herring, since in the case there are
> > millions of boxes it will be a ton of work to maintain the database of
> > them and compare every log line against it, for limited hard
> > information.
>
> Why? Just running uuidgen -r once per install and saving it somewhere is
> good enough.
>
> > Because boxes will typically download specific updated
> > RPMs just the once, you can get an idea of the number of active boxes
> > just by filtering on packages that have been updated for a while.
>
> That's wrong assumption, many people use proxies to avoid downloading
> updates for each box again and again.
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or cases like I have just recently set up where I created my own
repository (yam soon to be known as depo) and all computers will
install/update from there and will never touch a fedoraproject
repository at all.
Craig
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