[Popcon-developers] support for multiple submission to multiple popcon servers

[Bill Allombert]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 04:20:56PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Bill Allombert]
> In some use cases, preseeding is the best option, while in others, the
> /etc/popularity-contest.d/ approach is the best option.  For those
> that want to configure Debian using debian-installer and a single
> preseed file, the preseed option is the best.  While for those that
> want to adjust the setup by installing extra deb packages, the
> /etc/popularity-contest.d/ approach is the best.
> 
> This I do not believe it make sense to pick one over the other.  They
> have different use cases.  I've used both, depending on the context.
> Some times preseeding is the only option, while other times adding a
> deb is the only option.
> 
> Debian Edu uses preseeding today, inserted when installing using our
> udeb packages:
> 
>   # Get those using popcon to submit to us too
>   popularity-contest popularity-contest/submiturls string \
>     http://popcon.debian.org/cgi-bin/popcon.cgi \
>     http://popcon.skolelinux.org/cgi-bin/popcon-submit.cgi
> 
> But this approach will not work with the new popcon, so we need to
> adjust it one way or another.

Indeed. You will need to ship an encryption key so you can as well ship
a file in /etc/popularity-contest.d/.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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