On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:32:46AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Looking at
URL: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=popularity-contest , I
see that only 99.75% of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org
have the package popularity-contest installed. As this is impossible,
I
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:32:46AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Looking at
URL: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=popularity-contest , I
see that only 99.75% of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org
have the package popularity-contest installed. As this is impossible,
I
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:07:48 +0200
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed. This would also rule out a temporary bug in popcon (in that
case, it would have been a peak which would subside over time).
Instead, my guess is that there are corner-case situations in which
popcon tries to
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:07:48 +0200
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Another possibility might be a group of people having popcon and
something like cron-apt installed at the same time; if both cronjobs
trigger at approximately the same time, that would greatly increase
the
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 09:13:42AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Russ Allbery]
It's not *impossible*... someone could be running the scripts from the
package without having the package installed. I don't know why they'd do
that, though, or whether that's a more plausible explanation
[Russ Allbery]
It's not *impossible*... someone could be running the scripts from the
package without having the package installed. I don't know why they'd do
that, though, or whether that's a more plausible explanation than a
corrupt database.
Sure, it is possible for people to run the
I suspect this mean that 0.25% (1 of 400) of the machines reporting to
popcon.debian.org got a corrupt/inconsitent dpkg database.
Afaict dpkg has no mechanism in place for detecting or recovering from database curruption. The format of the datbase
means that curruption tends to lead to dpkg
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Looking at
URL: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=popularity-contest , I
see that only 99.75% of the machines reporting to popcon.debian.org
have the package popularity-contest installed. As this is impossible,
I suspect this mean that
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