The Gentoostats project aims to collect and analyse various statistics about Gentoo systems.

This is an updated version of Gentoostats for GSoC 2012 and is based on the work of Vikraman Choudhury for his GSoC 2011 project, "Gentoostats".

This repository contains the client application. You can find the server here.

You can specify exactly what to report by running

gentoostats configure

You can also manually edit /etc/gentoostats/payload.cfg after it has been created.

You can view the submission data by running

gentoostats submit -vv --pretend

• Make.conf variables:
  • ACCEPT_KEYWORDS
  • ACCEPT_LICENSE
  • ARCH
  • CFLAGS
  • CHOST
  • CTARGET
  • CXXFLAGS
  • EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
  • FEATURES
  • FFLAGS
  • GENTOO_MIRRORS
  • LDFLAGS
  • MAKEOPTS
  • PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
  • SYNC (rsync server)
• System USE flags (USE)
• Installed Packages
  • Package build time
  • Package keyword
  • Package repository (e.g. "gentoo")
  • Package size
  • Package USE flags (USE, IUSE, PKGUSE)
• Selected Packages (your @world set, plus all selected sets)
• Time of last Portage tree synchronisation (LASTSYNC)
• LANG
• PLATFORM (e.g. 'Linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3_CPU_M_330_@_2.13GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3')
• PROFILE (e.g. 'default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop')

• Python 2.7+ (including Python 3+)
• Portage
• Gentoolkit

NOTE: Currently there is no official server running, so you can't actually report any statistics. You are free to experiment with the client though.

To download the client, clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/gg7/gentoostats.git

Place the directory wherever you want, but remember to add gentoostats' 'bin' directory to your $PATH, and the 'pym' directory to your $PYTHONPATH.

Run

gentoostats configure

To create /etc/gentoostats:

mkdir /etc/gentoostats

To generate /etc/gentoostats/auth.cfg:

echo -e "[AUTH]\nUUID : $(cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid)\n"         > /etc/gentoostats/auth.cfg
echo -e "PASSWD : $(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc a-zA-Z0-9 | head -c16)" >> /etc/gentoostats/auth.cfg

To generate /etc/gentoostats/payload.cfg:

cp gentoostats/payload.cfg.example /etc/gentoostats/payload.cfg
$EDITOR /etc/gentoostats/payload.cfg

To submit your stats, run 'gentoostats submit' (normally no superuser privileges are required)

GSoC 2011 Project: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/vh4x0r/26001
GSoC 2011 Proposal: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/vh4x0r/1
GSoC 2012 Project: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/gg7/28001