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Re: Automatically collect hardware information from users?



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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