On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 11:57:03PM +0100, Andrey Utkin wrote: > Since it is going to be opt-in and optional anyway, we seem to be fine with > having just partial data. > > I assume we have logs of distfiles downloads from Gentoo infrastructure, and > can negotiate access to relevant logs of our mirrors. That constitutes partial > data correlated with users' installation activity, as good as it gets. This assumption is wrong at the root.
> If we do have some such data, are we using it in any way for the discussed > purposes? > > If we don't, but could get it, would we be able to use that data for these > purposes? If no, why? > > If we can't get the data, why? Simply put: Gentoo does not run the last-mile edge of distfile distribution. $ dig @ns1.gentoo.org +noall +answer distfiles.gentoo.org IN A distfiles.gentoo.org. 7200 IN A 64.50.233.100 distfiles.gentoo.org. 7200 IN A 140.211.166.134 distfiles.gentoo.org. 7200 IN A 64.50.236.52 $ echo 140.211.166.134 64.50.233.100 64.50.236.52 |fmt -1 |xargs -n1 dig +short -x ftp-osl.osuosl.org. ftp-nyc.osuosl.org. ftp-chi.osuosl.org. And historically also TDS & another provider. Plus all of the regional mirrors that don't even have .gentoo.org hostnames. I would like to replace the legacy http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ functionality with a redirection service, at which point you could have partial data, but it answers a very different question than Goose. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
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