On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 11:34:47AM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > == Summary == > Right now, we estimate installed Fedora systems by counting unique IP > addresses which show up in our updates mirror statistics. We need > better data than that. There are some proposals for more complicated > systems, but a quick thing we can do is implement a per-system UUID > (unique identifier) and count that instead of IP addresses.
FWIW, I think that doing this is great idea. We can really use more reliable information about the number of installations. As Lennart wrote, using either sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific(3) or `systemd-id128 new --app-specific=...` (new in F30) or an independent reimplementation seems to right way to implement this. > == Upgrade/compatibility impact == > Older versions will not have the UUID counting enabled; we will keep > collecting stats in the traditional way for those systems. If the sd_id128_get_machine_app_specific/... mechanism is used, this could be added to previous releases in a dnf update. This is an additional advantage over having a indepdent uuid for this. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
