Re: pkgsrc survey

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know how practical my idea is, but this application should be 
installed
as part of the bootstrap procedure done for pkgsrc; this way you can ensure
that everyone has it.

The next thing to do for saving people's time would be to add a commented
entry to crontab or something like that, so all that needs doing is 
enabling it.

Regards,

Hiten Pandya
hmp at dragonflybsd.org

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Please consider installing pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgsurvey and running it.
>
> It will email your hostname, your operating system processor and 
> version, and list of your installed packages to an email alias setup by 
> a member of the pkgsrc Project Management Committee.
>
> I have been told that email addresses and individual machine release 
> levels will not be divulged to anyone and that only information relating 
> to packages and pkgsrc will be used and will only present that to people.
>
> Consider only submitting a survey once per month; maybe a monthly job 
> could be useful to spot trends. (Also the pkgsrc-pmc member has advised 
> some people to use some form of passive IDS like tripwire or aide, 
> depending on the results. He'll continue to do this.)
>
>  Jeremy C. Reed
>
> p.s. I hope to find out what packages are widely used for preparing a 
> DVD. If you are interested in a DVD with packages, please let me know. 
> Also, I will use this information to help better use my time for porting 
> pkgsrc packages to other (non-NetBSD) pkgsrc platforms.
>
> p.p.s. If you use dfports, then maybe just send your dports pkg_info 
> output to me directly.