On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 09:15 -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:02:18PM +0000, Andy Green wrote: > > Probably the GUID is a bit of a red herring, since in the case there are > > millions of boxes it will be a ton of work to maintain the database of > > them and compare every log line against it, for limited hard > > information. > > Why? Just running uuidgen -r once per install and saving it somewhere is > good enough. > > > Because boxes will typically download specific updated > > RPMs just the once, you can get an idea of the number of active boxes > > just by filtering on packages that have been updated for a while. > > That's wrong assumption, many people use proxies to avoid downloading > updates for each box again and again. ---- or cases like I have just recently set up where I created my own repository (yam soon to be known as depo) and all computers will install/update from there and will never touch a fedoraproject repository at all. Craig
