[Popcon-developers] Using popcon internally at my work
Anton Piatek
anton at piatek.co.uk
Fri Jul 6 12:45:40 UTC 2007
Hi,
Thanks for your reply,
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Anton Piatek]
>
>> Also, your thoughts on the best way to get package popularity inside
>> our company would be most appreciated. Mostly just our custom
>> packages (all from one repository server, but no real distinctive
>> naming conventions are used) but perhaps all Debian packages would
>> help our packagers too.
>>
>
> We are fine with having such non-debian packages collected. It give
> us an idea about what popular packages are missing in Debian.
>
> The server side of popcon is included in the examples directory in the
> popularit-contest package. It is perfectly doable to list several
> email addresses and HTTP URLs on the clients to report to several
> collectors. This is for example done by the Debian Edu project, see
> <URL:http://popcon.skolelinux.org/>. It is a bit work to set up, but
> not too hard.
>
Should I just create a package with only the config file? How do I stop
the debian one from splatting it if a new version of the debian one is
released? (Repackaging the whole of the popcon package with a higher
number sounds silly)
Anton
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