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Add support for the DNF Count Me feature [1,2,3] as a standalone rpm-ostree subcommand called weekly via a systemd timer. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DNF_Better_Counting [2] https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html?highlight=countme#options-for-both-main-and-repo [3] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/ci-dnf-stack/blob/master/dnf-behave-tests/features/countme.feature
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DNF Count Me support
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Classic DNF based operating systems can use the DNF Count Me feature
to anonymously report how long a system has been running without impacting the
user privacy. This is implemented as an additional countme variable added to
requests made to fetch RPM repository metadata. On those systems, this value is
added randomly to requests made automatically via the dnf-makecache.timer or
via explicit calls to dnf update or dnf install.
However, this does not work for rpm-ostree based systems as in the default
case (no package overlayed on top of the base commit), rpm-ostree will not
fetch any RPM repository metadata at all.
Thus rpm-ostree includes a distinct timer (rpm-ostree-countme.timer),
triggered weekly, that implement the DNF Count Me functionality in a
standalone way.
Disabling DNF Count Me on a system
To disable this feature, you need to update the Count Me option in all RPM repository configuration files:
sed -i 's/countme=1/countme=0/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/*.repo
You should also stop and disable the rpm-ostree-countme.timer:
$ systemctl disable --now rpm-ostree-countme.timer