Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2021-05-02 8:52 a.m., None via users wrote: Is there a way to disable non-HTTPS mirrors? I don't see any reason why your ISP should be able to see what distribution you use, and most importantly, the exact package versions you're installing/updating. (I know DNF will only install signed pack

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-02 Thread None via users
Michal Domonkos wrote: > Another correction - turns out I didn't read Stan's reply carefully; he says it's sent to a mirror, however that's not the case :) It's just the MirrorManager instance that receives it. Ah, I see. Many thanks for the clarification. Matthew Miller wrote: > I hope y

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-02 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 03:35:48AM +0200, None via users wrote: > I recently got to know that Fedora's DNF creates an UUID to help keep > track of the number of unique Fedora users. It does not. I initially proposed this, similar to what openSUSE does, but the actual implementation does not use a

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-02 Thread Michal Domonkos
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 3:47 PM Michal Domonkos wrote: > > On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 3:15 PM stan via users > wrote: > > I think the answer to your question is that the variable is sent to > > the mirror, so yes, a mirror will receive the flag. However, they > > appear to have gone to great lengths t

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-02 Thread Michal Domonkos
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 3:47 PM Michal Domonkos wrote: > 1) the age of the installation (one of 4 values, see the link above) Oh, just a little correction - there were some later changes made to that man page (the age "buckets" in particular) that are not reflected in the linked PR, so please chec

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-02 Thread Michal Domonkos
On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 3:15 PM stan via users wrote: > I think the answer to your question is that the variable is sent to > the mirror, so yes, a mirror will receive the flag. However, they > appear to have gone to great lengths to avoid leaking any > identifiable information. See this link: > >

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-02 Thread stan via users
On Sun, 2 May 2021 05:12:55 +0200 (CEST) None via users wrote: > ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: > > > This would also be of interest to you... > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1672504 > > > The link was helpful. I have one more question: > > - Where is this countme variable

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-01 Thread None via users
ed.gres...@greshko.com wrote: > This would also be of interest to you... > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1672504 > The link was helpful. I have one more question: - Where is this countme variable sent? Is it to Fedora itself (the host getfedora.org), or the package mirrors, that

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/05/2021 10:28, ml-de...@keemail.me wrote: - And, have you read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_Better_Counting I went through it; it seems like there's no UUID created—just a "countme" variable. Is that right? This

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/05/2021 10:28, ml-de...@keemail.me wrote: - And, have you read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_Better_Counting I went through it; it seems like there's no UUID created—just a "countme" variable. Is that right? Corr

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-01 Thread ml-devel
- And, have you read https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_Better_Counting I went through it; it seems like there's no UUID created—just a "countme" variable. Is that right? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe sen

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/05/2021 09:35, None via users wrote: I recently got to know that Fedora's DNF creates an UUID to help keep track of the number of unique Fedora users. As per my understanding, before implementing this UUID mechanism, they obtained their user-base estimate through the use of IP addresses.

Re: Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-01 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/05/2021 09:35, None via users wrote: - Is there any way to opt out of providing data for this user-base statistical analysis? Yes. Go to /etc/yum.repos.d and remove "countme=1" from any of *.repo files. -- Remind me to ignore comments which aren't germane to the thread.

Questions on DNF's UUID

2021-05-01 Thread None via users
Hello everyone. I recently got to know that Fedora's DNF creates an UUID to help keep track of the number of unique Fedora users. As per my understanding, before implementing this UUID mechanism, they obtained their user-base estimate through the use of IP addresses.     I would appreciate it i