Hello! On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 13:56:53 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Goswin von Brederlow] >> Shouldn't that be included in popularity-contest? > > Well, I have had the same idea, but never found time to implement > it. It could be added as an option to popularity-contest, but not > as part of the normal popcon submission as it would require approval > from each individual sysadmin with popcon installed before reporting > hardware information. On the other hand, the hardware content in a > machine changes very rarely, while the package list change fairly > regularly. Another solution could be to add the feature to popularity-contest, but only for the first submission and controlled by a debconf question when the package is installed (thus the sysadmin can approve it). > I suspect it is a good idea to set up the collector as part of > popcon.debian.org, but let the hardware reporting system be a > standalone package reporting when the machine is installed or > something like that, instead of weekly. Well, doesn't the debian-installer report [1] [2] already fulfill the latter case, i.e. when the machine gets installed the first time? Just my 0.02€... Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] /var/log/debian-installer/* [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=installation-reports
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