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

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Thank you Bill... about to leave for a trip and things are burning --
but I will try to test/feedback asap.

Thanks again!

On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, Bill Allombert wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:49:49PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Dear popular developers,

> > Two proposals:

> > (By myself): in /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest,
> > replace --keyring "$KEYRING" -r "$POPCONKEY"
> > by      --keyring $KEYRING -r $POPCONKEY

> > This allows KEYRING to be set to "keyring1 --keyring keyring2",
> > and POPCONKEY to be set to "keyid1 -r keyid2", so it is possible
> > to encrypt with several public keys at once.

> > A more elegant suggestion 

> > (By Yaroslav) Support for a /etc/popularity-contest.d directory
> > with *.conf files that will be sourced by 
> > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest
> > So a package (in a Debian based distribution) can add a file to
> > /etc/popularity-contest.d to change to popcon configuration,
> > for example by adding:

> > SUBMITURLS="$SUBMITURLS http://myurl"

> > The issue is that the order of the files matters, so we need
> > to read /etc/popularity-contest.d in a fixed order.

> I wrote a patch (in attachment) that attempts to implement both
> proposals. The patch includes the documentation in the FAQ.

> The patch is available in the GIT branch 'bill-popularity-contest.d'.

> Unfortunately I did not check whether the instruction in the FAQ
> are working. I would be grateful if you could try them and provide
> feedback.

> Cheers,
-- 
Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D.
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