From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 31 07:00:57 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 240ED16A4DA for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:00:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A52F043D49 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:00:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.50]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J3900AJIA5K1J20@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:00:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J3900K1JA5K7X80@pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:00:56 -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 <0J390097XA5J5PH0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 01:00:56 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 34931 invoked from network); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:00:41 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:00:41 +0000 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:00:40 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20060730233839.I27679@ganymede.hub.org> To: User Freebsd Message-id: <44CDAA98.3030702@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> <44CD41EC.6030605@freebsd.org> <20060730233839.I27679@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: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 07:00:57 -0000 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