smolt stale profiles
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at redhat.com
Mon Jun 25 20:08:10 UTC 2007
Mike C wrote:
> Mike McGrath <mmcgrath <at> redhat.com> writes:
>
>
>
>> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/delete?UUID=YOURUUID Unfortunately we
>> can't use the hardware UUID of your system for privacy issues, so
>> whenever a fresh install happens, the old profile will remain.
>>
>
> Thanks Mike - that is what I was afraid you might say - if the majority of people
> do not bother to remove old profiles after installing new versions of Fedora then
> over a period more and more old, but no longer relevant, profiles will build up
> and therefore the statistics will contain a smaller and smaller fraction of
> live machines in its database. It is therefore important to remove such old
> profiles in order to keep the statistics synced to real machines?
>
>
We also track when the last checkin was. Those enabling smolt's checkin
(which happens automatically when you install via anaconda and send your
profile) will keep a fresh profile. This will allow us to say "only
select profiles that checked in in the last 8 months) which would ignore
older stale profiles. Its the best we can do without causing privacy
issues.
-Mike
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