Please use KLive

dsd · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 11:21 pm Post subject: Please use KLive

A utility called klive has recently been released, in order to help kernel developers get a better idea of which kernels are being tested, based upon the number of people running each version. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/5606

The statistics are recorded and are publically available at http://klive.cpushare.com/

If we can get a decent number of gentoo-sources users using this tool then we (Gentoo kernel maintainers) would benefit by having a better general idea which Gentoo kernel versions are being tested and how much. This kind of info can be useful in some scenarios.

If you want to help out, it's really simple to set up:

gimpel · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:32 am Post subject:

humm...

dirtyepic · Developer Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 1614 Location: sk.ca

working fine here.
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hpestilence · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 82

Would the ck-sources in portage show up in Gentoo or ck?

Reason I ask is the ck-sources description is:

MethodZ · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 49 Location: /root/

Emerge in progress tho, will my 733mhz with 256mb ram help out with this?.. or does hardware matter?
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dsd · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:26 pm Post subject:

the digest and the init script errors are fixed in klive-0.7-r1

ck-sources users will appear under 'ck' and not gentoo, even though its sort of a hybrid.

hardware doesn't matter, mainly interested in numbers of users at this stage, a wide range of hardware is good though

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MethodZ · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2005 Posts: 49 Location: /root/

well i emerge --sync... but i never emerged... cause i just got my Verlihub Up and running w00t w00t!

but im here again today and tried emerge klive and got this:

hpestilence · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 82

Unmask by doing:

echo "app-misc/klive ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

if you want to just unmask a specific version do:

echo "=app-misc/klive-0.7-r2 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

or edit /etc/portage/package.keywords manually with a text editor and just add

app-misc/klive ~x86
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meulie · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:05 am Post subject:

If you're submitting your info anyway to 3rd parties, then why not also register your machine at Linux Counter Project?

Register yourself at: http://counter.li.org/enter-person.php
Register your machine(s) at: http://counter.li.org/machine-form.php

and then use the script from http://counter.li.org/scripts/ to automate the whole thing...
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John-Boy · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject:

Added and running, any change needed to my firewall for this to submit stuff ?
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meulie · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject:

No, as far as I know both klive & the Linux Counter project work fine with a 'normal' firewall. So as long as your can browse the web from that machine, the scripts will work...

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Ibn al-Hazardous · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:58 pm Post subject:

I get a "missing keyword" error on amd64. Is there any real reason for this - or should I just add ~amd64 to the ebuild and put it in my overlay?
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Ibn al-Hazardous · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:46 pm Post subject:

s0be · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 218

On amd64 I did the following:

mkdir /usr/local/portage/portage/app-misc
cp -a /usr/portage/app-misc/klive/ /usr/local/portage/app-misc/
cd /usr/local/portage/app-misc/
mv klive-0.7-r2.ebuild klive-0.7-r3.ebuild
vi klive-0.7-r3.ebuild
[added ~amd64 keyword]
emerge -pv klive
echo =app-misc/klive-0.7-r3 ~amd64 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -pv klive
echo =dev-python/twisted-2.0.0 ~amd64 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -pv klive
echo =net-zope/zopeinterface-3.0.1 ~amd64 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
emerge -pv klive
emerge klive
ebuild klive-0.7-r3.ebuild digest
emerge klive
/etc/init.d/klive start
rc-update add klive default

BAM, amd64 working.

Ibn al-Hazardous · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject:

s0be · Apprentice Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 218

You can manually copy the file from files/klive.init.d to /etc/init.d/klive and then it's there. What version of portage are you using?

ericxx2005 · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:04 pm Post subject:

If this is pretty important, should it be put into the gentoo install manual? The reason I ask is that you're only going to get information on people who are "kernel-aware", and not from people who don't upgrade the kernel after install.

Ibn al-Hazardous · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:15 pm Post subject:

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thomasvk · Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 599

Hey, because you say "testing kernels", is this only for developers and people testing out kernels, or also for all the other people just running kernels?

In the latter case, I'd be more than willing to help out.

yottabit · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject:

What happened to the good ol' Gentoo-Stats project?
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opensas · Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:07 pm Post subject:

codergeek42 · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:43 am Post subject:

Working fine for me.

gentoo-sources rocks.

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chunderbunny · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject:

What port does klive want to connect to? I think my firewall is blocking outbound access, so it needs to be let through.