On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 02:05:00PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering how popular Debian is and I thought it should be possible > to get an estimate for the stable distribution by measuring how often > the Packages file for the main section is downloaded between updates. > Since stable is very stable and apt only downloads the file if it is > updated it should be downloaded approximately once per machine that > has debian running. This won't be exact for several reasons but should > provide a guide.
Prompted by this mail, I looked up this statistic: | How may times was perl-base (which is essential) 5.6.1-8.8 downloaded | from security.debian.org between its availability there starting 30 | december and 9.5 days later? Of course, this is inaccurate due to security.d.o mirrors, both private and public, people using backports, and of course, people using woody but not doing a weekly apt-get update && upgrade for security stuff. These numbers can also be inflated a bit by mirrors downloading the stuff without needing it for themselves, webcrawlers, etc. As an interesting datapoint, perl-base 5.6.1-8.7 was downloaded well over 600 times per week in this very timespan, while the security update -8.7 dates from April 2004. One can only guess at the influence of that, which I will not do here. The result: 66170 i386 1105 powerpc 789 sparc 270 alpha 193 hppa 93 arm 82 mipsel 75 ia64 70 m68k 66 mips 64 s390 --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]