Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:40 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <44CDAA98.3030702@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060730233839.I27679@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <df9ac37c0607281319s5da0f64ese5fa57df1ef11a4d@mail.gmail.com> <ef10de9a0607282139i51fdde5ch58525fa3347364d2@mail.gmail.com> <87slklj9hu.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060729021007.F27679@ganymede.hub.org> <44CD41EC.6030605@freebsd.org> <20060730233839.I27679@ganymede.hub.org>
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User Freebsd wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: >> Approximately 15000 portsnap snapshots (i.e., /var/db/portsnap or >> /usr/local/portsnap directories) are being kept updated on systems >> which send HTTP requests to portsnap*.freebsd.org. Of these, about >> 4300 are running FreeBSD 6.0, 4500 are running FreeBSD 6.1, 2400 >> are running FreeBSD 6-STABLE, 300 are running FreeBSD 5.5, and the >> remaining 3500 are using copies of portsnap installed from the ports >> tree (presumably on earlier FreeBSD releases, since the portsnap >> port won't install if portsnap is already part of the FreeBSD base >> system). > > 'k, *this* sounds like it might be perfect ... would it be possible to > get a copy of the portsnap logs to see about setting up some sort of > auto-parse? Maybe setup some statistics and graphs? You mean something like http://www.daemonology.net/portsnap/stats.html ? > BTW, is portsnap meant to replace cvsup, or ... ? Or are we still only > getting "half the picture" if we look at portsnap only? There are still a lot of people (particularly on pre-6.0 systems) who are using CVSup rather than portsnap for updating their ports trees. Colin Percival
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