-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-01-16 at 13:40 +0100, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hi,
Carlos E. R. wrote:
There is a problem with this: even if you keep using the same machine and installation for a year, you will be removed from the database, unless you manually update it periodically. [...] I opened a bugzilla so that Novell changes the cron job to /etc/cron.daily/, but it has been dismissed. No, I will not report upstream, this is a packaging problem here, IMO: the /etc/cron.daily/ is a SuSE feature, AFAIK.
It is not. This is a bug in the handling of smolt. Why wont you report it upstream?
- Because the people insterested in getting good and reliable stats are the distributors, not the users. - Because I din't find how, I'm not aquainted with fedora, I don't have an account with their bugzilla, and I didn't find it. (1) - It has taken me "years" to become aquainted with Novell's bugzilla, how to express my points, how to argue them. I can't do the same with fedorans, and I will be ignored. - Because I'm not an expert in Smolt, and I find the documentation very lacking (and no, I can not write docs if I'm not an expert). And not being an expert, I can not argue my point with them. - Why do I have to report a problem upstream, when we report all problems found to Novell's Bugzilla? Surely you don't want us to subscribe to the billion bug reporting systems upstream of all packages? And I still think that /etc/cron.daily/ is a SuSE feature, as the /usr/lib/cron/run-crons is "Copyright (c) 1998-2001 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg".
There is also a /etc/init.d/smolt service, purpose unknown, and dissabled by default.
This triggers if data gets sent by smoltSendProfile or not.
Undocumented. Do you mean that if I manually send data somehow it runs insserv on smolt? (1) The link for reporting upstream is https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/report. It says: «Note: See TracReports for help on using and creating reports.» That help text in unintelible for me, almost like programesse. Without 'almost': ]Example: All active tickets, sorted by priority and time ] ] SELECT id AS ticket, status, severity, priority, owner, ] time as created, summary FROM ticket ] WHERE status IN ('new', 'assigned', 'reopened') ] ORDER BY priority, time How on earth am I going to use that? There is also a "Help/Guide" button on top, which takes me to a «The Trac User and Administration Guide». Administration!? Im sorry, but that sent me running for my life, and I'm not going back there. :-/ Just compare to http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports and http://en.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ. Home, sweet home! - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklwicEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VYswCeM4jyZ4W/bPxvw2Lzza5uUJon GYEAn1uLb9ouU/odLn9GjExnTvp2ow3b =ryQa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----