On 09/18/08 10:16, Tom Mueller (pkg-discuss) wrote:
> install/null
> install/[previous_version]
I don't think everyone would want to share this data and many would
probably prefer it be opt-in rather than needing to opt-out every system.
I think trying to make a system that can gather data like previous
version puts the interests of developers/distributors ahead of
individual software consumers. Certain consumers may want to share
system status data with certain distributors but that can be done
outside of the packaging system.
> info
> contents
> image-update/[previous_version]
>
> In the header of the manifest request. This allows us to answer the questions
> above.
I would hope there will be more pkg features like local mirroring, and
package serialization which would make it hard to get this data. (Would
a site owned mirror really want to pass statistics back to a public server?)
Additionally there are questions like how relevant this data is given
virtualization/cloning (a single package update may correspond to large
farms of running instances, another may be for analysis purposes and
have no real running instances.)
-Will
>
> Tom
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