The updates firehose

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 13:02 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Mugshot folks don't seem to be interested in splitting out code when I 
> asked in fedora-desktop list. From the description it appears that the 
> code is not going to useful outside of mugshot. Talk to them again anyway.

I can't think of much from the Mugshot code that would be directly
reusable for package installation stats.  Desktop applications people
are interested in (what Mugshot tracks) and RPM packages installed on a
computer are only distantly related.

At least on the client side I'm not sure how much more complicated it
would get than a POST of the output of rpm -qa to a fedora server (i.e.
a few lines of Python) in /etc/cron.whatever.

On the server side I'd just reuse the smolt code.