Re: Architecture distribution in Debian according to popcon
Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:47:39PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:58:08AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Finally, the new popularity-contest report pages are working, and the
> > > > new summary scripts are available. 1684 hosts are currently
> > > > reporting, and this give us a good idea on which packages are in use
> > > > in Debian.
> > > >
> > > > The numbers are among other things used to decide the package order
> > > > when building CDs, so if you want to make sure the packages you use
> > > > are the the first CDs, install popularity-contest. It require that
> > > > the host is able to send emails to participate.
> > > >
> > > > The result pages are available <URL:http://popcon.debian.org/>.
> > > >
> > > > New since the version in Woody, is that popularity-contest report the
> > > > running architecture of the participants. Currently the number of
> > > > samples are a bit too low to judge the real usage, but the numbers are
> > > > interesting anyway:
> > > >
> > > > 1 0.09% x86_64
> > > > 1 0.09% m68k
> > > > 1 0.09% hppa
> > > > 1 0.09% mips
> > > > 3 0.26% alpha
> > > > 8 0.69% sparc
> > > > 18 1.56% powerpc
> > > > 1119 97.14% i386
> > > > 1152 100.00% total (ignored 532 without arch info)
> > > >
> > > > Not too bad, but I suspect the fraction of non-i386 arch should be
> > > > larger than 2.9%. If you agree, I suggest you install and configure
> > > > popularity-contest to report your package usage and arch info every
> > > > week. Several architectures are missing from the list. Are no-one
> > > > using them?
> > >
> > > Notice that for whatever reason, the mail address which does receive the
> > > popcon information does believe that my machines are not using fully
> > > qualified domains, or something such, and thus they get rejected by
> > > popcon, so i somehow seriously doubt the reliability of this info. Maybe
> > > something to do with me using dyndns, and/or having 3 boxes behind one
> > > ADSL line ?
> > >
> > > Friendly,
> > >
> > > Sven Luther
> >
> > How can you tell? Does popcon complain?
> >
> > I have 2 systems with popcon behind a dsl line with faked from lines
> > (MAILFROM=..." in /etc/popularity-contest.conf) and that seems to
> > work.
>
> Well, i had to fake the MAILFROM lines, i didn't know about that, and i
> guess many people also don't know about that. This means popcon will
> really target mostly only the boxes which are able to receive mail, and
> have real email addresses for root.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
Will you write a bug about it or should I?
Hardly any user will have root@<hostname> as correct from and popcon
should ask for the correct FROM.
MfG
Goswin
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