smolt stale profiles
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 25 20:27:11 UTC 2007
Mike McGrath wrote:
> Mike C wrote:
>> Mike McGrath <mmcgrath <at> redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>> http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/delete?UUID=YOURUUID Unfortunately
>>> we can't use the hardware UUID of your system for privacy issues, so
>>> whenever a fresh install happens, the old profile will remain.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Mike - that is what I was afraid you might say - if the
>> majority of people
>> do not bother to remove old profiles after installing new versions of
>> Fedora then
>> over a period more and more old, but no longer relevant, profiles will
>> build up
>> and therefore the statistics will contain a smaller and smaller
>> fraction of live machines in its database. It is therefore important
>> to remove such old
>> profiles in order to keep the statistics synced to real machines?
>>
>>
>
> We also track when the last checkin was. Those enabling smolt's checkin
> (which happens automatically when you install via anaconda and send your
> profile) will keep a fresh profile. This will allow us to say "only
> select profiles that checked in in the last 8 months) which would ignore
> older stale profiles. Its the best we can do without causing privacy
> issues.
Is a one way hardware hash really a big privacy concern? After all smolt
is purely optional. One way hash would improve the accuracy of the stats
nicely.
Rahul
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list