From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 30 23:34:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DEEF16A4DD for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:34:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8962A43D6D for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:34:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr4so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.215]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J3800JPCPH7YA10@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:34:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml8so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.152]) by pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J3800BY7PH7P2D0@pd4mr4so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:34:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J3800GEPPH6ON50@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:34:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 33378 invoked from network); Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:34:05 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:34:05 +0000 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:34:04 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20060729021007.F27679@ganymede.hub.org> To: User Freebsd Message-id: <44CD41EC.6030605@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <87slklj9hu.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060729021007.F27679@ganymede.hub.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: Xiao-Yong Jin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:34:23 -0000 User Freebsd wrote: >> We can also collect the access information of the cvsup server and >> portsnap server, can't we? > > What does that give? 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). Colin Percival