Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:10:37 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: marino@freebsd.org Cc: Big Lebowski <spankthespam@gmail.com>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion Message-ID: <20140410171037.GJ8207@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <534512CB.5030109@marino.st> References: <mailman.0.1396958400.6606.freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> <5344005C.4030503@aldan.algebra.com> <20140408185537.69d5cd6e@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <53442E10.6060907@aldan.algebra.com> <20140409002033.5a2d9850@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <CAHcXP%2BfJUMkK3qPdS_wr99B-xXJxzAOkQ%2Bek=R2aKxUTTE_uCg@mail.gmail.com> <534512CB.5030109@marino.st>
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--Re2uCLPLNzqOLVJA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:28:43AM +0200, John Marino wrote: > On 4/9/2014 11:22, Big Lebowski wrote: > > While we are not having any way to measure ports usage (or am I wrong > > here?), we're still building packages from ports, and I would hope that= we > > could get some statistics of pkg usage for certain packages from offici= al > > repositories, could we? This is not exactly direct relationship for the > > port being used but I would think that such knowledge is better than no= ne. >=20 > How do you distinguish packages downloaded by mirrors versus those > downloaded by pkg? At DragonFly, we'd love to know how to do this > because it always comes up when the "it's kill to kill i386 platform" > discussion comes up. Every time somebody brings up a statistic about > how many times packages are download (or what % packages downloaded are > i386) then the very next questions is: are those legitimate downloads. >=20 >=20 > > As a sidenote, perhaps its the time to introduce some sort of package/p= orts > > usage data gathering to FreeBSD just like Debian/Ubuntu are doing it, t= hat > > would be anonymous and optional? >=20 > Maybe pkg adds some unique variable to the download URL. If not, it > could, and statistics could be tracked that way by analyzing the web > server logs. >=20 The useragent for pkg is pkg/version :D Exactly for that purpose regards, Bapt --Re2uCLPLNzqOLVJA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlNG0I0ACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExrRACgrU6G64JTuCgYX9kaEn+M06kF YHAAoJlJPSjcXxe+Ap+Pyg5p/Ax3/sgK =ilnO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Re2uCLPLNzqOLVJA--
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