[Popcon-developers] support for multiple submission to multiple popcon servers

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

NB is lists.alioth.debian.org up so I could just reply to the list
   without CCing?

those proposals probably should just be married together since the 2nd
one (by Yaroslav, i.e. me) just allows to avoid ugly patching of config
files, while it would still need augmented
/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest so files under
/etc/popularity-contest.d could extend $KEYRING and $POPCONKEY as
well.  Or have I got confused?

thanks Bill for going forward with this one!

On Tue, 19 Nov 2013, Bill Allombert wrote:

> Dear popular developers,

> Two proposals:

> (By myself): in /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest,
> replace --keyring "$KEYRING" -r "$POPCONKEY"
> by      --keyring $KEYRING -r $POPCONKEY

> This allows KEYRING to be set to "keyring1 --keyring keyring2",
> and POPCONKEY to be set to "keyid1 -r keyid2", so it is possible
> to encrypt with several public keys at once.

> A more elegant suggestion 

> (By Yaroslav) Support for a /etc/popularity-contest.d directory
> with *.conf files that will be sourced by 
> /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest
> So a package (in a Debian based distribution) can add a file to
> /etc/popularity-contest.d to change to popcon configuration,
> for example by adding:

> SUBMITURLS="$SUBMITURLS http://myurl"

> The issue is that the order of the files matters, so we need
> to read /etc/popularity-contest.d in a fixed order.

> Comments and suggestion ?

> Cheers,
-- 
Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D.
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