On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:32:46AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Looking at
> 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 sus
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:32:46AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Looking at
> 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 susp
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
> th
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 tr
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 explana
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 forge
[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 s
Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Looking at
> 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 0
Looking at
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 0.25% (1 of 400) of the machines reporting to
popcon.debian.
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