On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 12:32, John Harris <johnmh(a)splentity.com> wrote:
On Monday, January 7, 2019 11:34:47 AM EST Ben Cotton wrote:
> The Fedora community cares about privacy and is adverse to tracking
> measures. We don't want to track; just count.
If this is ever implemented, we should probably notify end users and provide
an easy way to disable this. If you pass an identifier, that enables client
tracking.
The original proposla was looking at something to what yum has had
built into it for a while. Every yum installation has a file
/var/lib/yum/uuid which contains whatever was pulled from
/proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid when yum was installed. Here is one
example 34cb9496-a62c-496e-8935-22f550247262
The change for yum (EPEL) systems would then have been:
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-7&am...
to
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-7&am...
And if dnf had a similar file it would be
metalink=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-30&ar...
This would then be seen by the proxies and could be used to clear up
various proxy numbers. For a user who does not want this, they could
either zero out /var/lib/yum/uuid, /etc/yum/vars/uuid or remove the
uuid= from the yum.repos.d files. [I expect that the final
implementation will be something like this also.]
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Stephen J Smoogen.