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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>
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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

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