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From: "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)" <klondike@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo package statistics -- GSoC 2011
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:56:31
Message-Id: 4DEFD393.2030109@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo package statistics -- GSoC 2011 by Vikraman
1 El 08/06/11 20:07, Vikraman escribió:
2 > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 09:35:26PM +0400, Николай Антонов wrote:
3 >> On 08.06.2011 18:36, Vikraman wrote:
4 >>> Hi everyone,
5 >>>
6 >>> I'm working on the `Package statistics` project this year. Till now, I
7 >>> have managed to write a client and server[0] to collect the following
8 >>> information from hosts:
9 >>>
10 >>> * Uname, portage profile, timestamp of portage tree
11 >>> * ARCH, CHOST, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, FFLAGS, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
12 >>> * ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, FEATURES, USE, LANG, SYNC, GENTOO_MIRRORS
13 >>> * Repository, Keyword, Useflags (plus,minus,unset), Counter, Size,
14 >>> and Build time for each installed package
15 >>>
16 >> May be collect hardware info & kernel configs too?
17 >> For example cpuinfo, lspci and lsusb(?).
18 > That's not part of package statistics. There's the smolt project for
19 > hardware statistics.
20 Well there is another reason about why you don't want' to log that:
21 Hardened users. Not having access to the kernel .config helps in making
22 the system more resilient to some attacks, as a result many hardened
23 users are very stubborn in not having the .config files published.

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