On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 22:25, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 4:37 PM Roberto Ragusa <m...@robertoragusa.it> > wrote: > > > > On 1/8/19 4:22 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > > > > If all you want to do is count, then it should be entirely sufficient > > > to do it like this: > > > > > > GET /metalink?repo=fedora-28&arch=x86_64&edition=<blah>&countme=1 > HTTP/1.1 > > > > > > the first time within each one-week window and a simple > > > > > > GET /metalink?repo=fedora-28&arch=x86_64&edition=<blah> HTTP/1.1 > > > > > > all other times. > > > > As an additional improvement, is it really needed to count every machine? > > We can subsample a lot, and only let some specific machines to show > > up for counting. > > The difficulty is not the counting. Requiring safe counting and > aggregation by the server is a requirement that no server or > intermediate server or proxy needs to follow, and would require > configuration or filtering control of a server that is outside of > client hands. It's not legally or technologically mandated. The great > use fo r the data is tracking hosts, metadata that is saleable and > likely to help provide a new form of tracking information. > > Writing this into the dnf behavior is typical, but i't's not > beneficial to the clients. It's beneficial to the mirrors, who are > likely to sell the data. While it may be that infamous problem, a > "Simple Matter Of Programming(tm)" to sanitize the data, there are > strong motivations to collect it and sell it, and I'd expect various > mirrors to start doing so within moments of the activation of the > feature. > 1. The mirrors do not see this. 2. We aren't talking about UUIDs anymore and just a countme variable being sent periodically. If a countme is going to be too much data to send, then clients are probably already sending way too much data already. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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