Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 21:23:35 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <9F5C27D0-B538-4C08-901A-848FF1F537EC@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <20060730234109.M27679@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> <20060730234109.M27679@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:42 PM, User Freebsd wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: > >> 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). > > BTW, is portsnap meant to replace cvsup, or ... ? Or are we still > only getting "half the picture" if we look at portsnap only? You are getting some fraction of the picture. We don't use portsnap (and cvsup we do use but not that often), for example. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
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