On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Seth Arnold <[email protected]> wrote: > #5 The pollinate.postinst creates a per-installation tag that is included > in requests. While this is convenient for server operators to track how > many clients are using their server, downstream consumers such as Tails > would need to pre-populate the /var/lib/pollinate/tag file before this > package is installed. > > Could the /var/lib/pollinate/tag creation logic be moved later, into the > shell script, to allow more flexibility in how the tag is pre-populated > for these downstream users?
This one isn't really possible. The tag is intended to be unique-per-/dev/urandom-device. Any user on the system can run pollinate, and if we put the tag creation logic there, it would mean per-user tags. The tag is voluntary, meaning that any user can remove, update, or modify their tag, and still receive the seed via pollinate. Per IRC: <sarnold> kirkland: ah, I see <sarnold> kirkland: well, fair enough, leave it alone. it works. <sarnold> kirkland: like you said, there are options for downstreams to do what they want with the tag file after the package is installed. :-Dustin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1246098 Title: MIR: pollinate To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pollen/+bug/1246098/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
