Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

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
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