From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 31 16:35:10 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 2937016A4E5 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:35:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4731943D98 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:34:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212DD291AFF; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:34:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05031-10; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:34:39 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883D1290C37; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:34:08 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 1AFB85D69C; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:34:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CDE344AB; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:34:09 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:34:09 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" In-Reply-To: <9F5C27D0-B538-4C08-901A-848FF1F537EC@shire.net> Message-ID: <20060731133310.K27679@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <87slklj9hu.fsf@photon.homelinux.org> <20060729021007.F27679@ganymede.hub.org> <44CD41EC.6030605@freebsd.org> <20060730234109.M27679@ganymede.hub.org> <9F5C27D0-B538-4C08-901A-848FF1F537EC@shire.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Questions 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 16:35:10 -0000 On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > 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. We use cvsup here, daily, to update the ports tree ... and based on someone else's post (alex?), finding out that portsnap overwrites the ports tree, which I'm taking to mean it will remove anything I add to it, makes changing over for me a no-op :( ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664