[Popcon-developers] Bug#545000: popularity-contest: popcon should have option to report arch only
Osamu Aoki
osamu at debian.org
Fri Sep 4 11:56:17 UTC 2009
Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.46
Severity: wishlist
While popcon report numbers are refereed sometimes to assess
architecture popularity,
While some admins are reluctant to report softwares used in detail for
their system,
While /etc/popularity-contest.conf contains most basic configuration of
popularity-contest,
Wile /etc/popularity-contest.conf is missing configuration to shut off
reporting package lists,
It will be nice to have the following option as technical compromise:
REPORT="full"
REPORT="arch"
and using this value to skip following part in /usr/sbin/popularity-contest
# Read dpkg database of installed packages
open PACKAGES, "dpkg-query --show --showformat='\${status} \${package}\\n'|";
while (<PACKAGES>)
{
....
}
With this, we get more reports.
This is better solution than "report-once" as proposed others. At least we know
how many "ACTIVE" sites.
Osamu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.14.25 Debian package management system
Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii cron 3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p
ii exim4 4.69-9 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-9 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
ii anacron 2.3-13.1 cron-like program that doesn't go
-- debconf information:
popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true
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