Bug#1014431: popularity-contest: automatically create hostid if not specified in popularity-contest.conf
On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 12:05:49AM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.73
> Severity: wishlist
>
> It would be nice if it was not required to have host-specific data in
> the configuration file (MY_HOSTID).
> If no MY_HOSTID is specified, popularity-contest could for example
> generate an application-specific MY_HOSTID from the machine-id as
> described for libsystemd's `sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific`
> function (i.e., HMAC-SHA256 of a application ID for
> popularity-contents keyed by the machine-id).
Hello Ansgar,
What is the life cycle of the machine-id ? How would that work while
fulfilling all the goal of MY_HOSTID ? What would be the advantage ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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