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cloud-init package

  1. Bug #423856
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 423856

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 423856] Re: [FFE] ec2-init should check for image upgrades

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer<email address hidden> wrote:
> Then whoever is maintaining the service will see that *someone* has a
> hardy-i386 machine.  I don't really think that the fact that disclosing
> that this someone is running version A or B of the given image is that
> much different.

I don't see where "hardy-i386" should bother anyone too much.

That information is usually included in HTTP_USER_AGENT, which is
transmitted in most any browser request. Your hardy box will transmit
this information to any server you request information from.

 * Firefox:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121621
Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5

 * Curl:
curl/7.18.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnulp) libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.1

 * Wget
Wget/1.10.2

That said, Soren's suggestion of something even more generic such as
"current" works for me too...

:-Dustin