On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09:13:42AM +0200, Erik Meusel wrote: > Package: popularity-contest > Version: 1.47 > Severity: normal > > popularity-contest should be run/offered to be run once while installation, > because tools like > popbugs from debian-goodies package need popularity-contest to be run once.
Hello Erik, I am afraid that would not work for two reasons: During installation, packages that are installed just after popularity-contest would be ignored. so the result would be inaccurate. Furthermore, all installed packages are recently installed (RECENT-CTIME), so popcon would merely report the list of packages used. > Since there is the following code: > > # Only run on the given day, to spread the load on the server a bit > if [ "$DAY" ] && [ "$DAY" != "$(date +%w)" ] ; then > exit 0 > fi > > in /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest, it cannot be run manually to solve > this, as > popbugs mentioned. When I commented out these lines and re-ran > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest, it worked. Well, you do not need to run /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest to use popbugs, because it only needs the file /var/log/popularity-contest, so you only need to run as root: popularity-contest > /var/log/popularity-contest So in any case the documentation of popbugs is deficient. If /var/log/popularity-contest is missing, popbugs should run popularity-contest itself and somehow cache the results (in /var/log/popularity-contest if run as root). Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
