[arch-dev-public] pkgstats: second try

Ray Rashif schivmeister at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 18:44:37 EDT 2010


On 11 September 2010 04:16, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 16:15, Ionuț Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> i noticed this myself when i tried to submit the data from other machine in
>> my network.
>>
>> like an idea we can use the UUID from the root partition
> Maybe.. Would it make more sense to take a hash of the eth0 mac
> address? Not sure if that is sensible... I guess the UUID doesn't
> change that often.

That's right, it only changes when you format the hard disk. But Dan's
IP+MAC algorithm above looks pretty good to me.


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