Bug#1014431: popularity-contest: automatically create hostid if not specified in popularity-contest.conf
On Thu, 2022-07-14 at 19:59 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 06:29:55PM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> > > From man:machine-id(5):
> >
> > +---
> > > The machine ID is usually generated from a random source during
> > > system installation or first boot and stays constant for all
> > > subsequent boots. Optionally, for stateless systems, it is generated
> > > during runtime during early boot if necessary.
> > +---
> >
> > That looks like it fulfills what I guess popcon needs.
>
> Almost. Is it possible to detect stateless system so that they do not report to popcon?
Does popcon detect such systems currently? I don't think anything
changes for such systems with the proposed change?
I'm not sure how one would reliably detect such systems; after all
depending on ones definition any VM in a cloud may be such a system
(depending on how it is used).
Ansgar
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