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From: ross smith <rjsm@×××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo package statistics -- GSoC 2011
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:27:31
Message-Id: BANLkTikCPj5SaoTN49DaOzYKOEv3LLKhyQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo package statistics -- GSoC 2011 by "Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike)"
1 >>> May be collect hardware info & kernel configs too?
2 >>> For example cpuinfo, lspci and lsusb(?).
3 >> That's not part of package statistics. There's the smolt project for
4 >> hardware statistics.
5 > Well there is another reason about why you don't want' to log that:
6 > Hardened users. Not having access to the kernel .config helps in making
7 > the system more resilient to some attacks, as a result many hardened
8 > users are very stubborn in not having the .config files published.
9
10 I would really like to see a nice way to set what information I want
11 sent. Perhaps a config file in /etc ? Also, an option to see what
12 is being sent would be great. :)
13
14 I look forward to start contributing my machine's info.
15
16 -Ross