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Re: Hybrid armhf/arm64 system



Alan Corey <alan01346 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I don't know if you can monitor download counts or not.  Both Raspian
> and OpenBSD have an automated way to upload feedback that you're using
> it.

There is popcon, which I presume has enough detail.  (It currently 
reports a total of 5 arm64 machines!).  I think you need some 
indirection to work out what Debian release is in use, e.g. to 
look at the libc version or something.

I try to install it on each new device, but it requires functioning 
outgoing email; that can be quite a headache on a device that doesn't 
otherwise need it.

(Hmm, I've just looked this up; apparently it now tries to submit 
over HTTP and only falls back to email if that fails.  And you can 
make it not fall back to email in its configuration file.  Which is 
great, except that it still depends on an MTA (and tries to install 
exim by default).  So I've just done

  apt-get install ssmtp popcon

and added

  MAILTO=

to /etc/popularity-contest.conf - and hopefully next week there will 
one more arm64 machine in the popcon report.)


Cheers,  Phil.



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