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 official > > repositories, could we? This is not exactly direct relationship for the > > port being used but I would think that such knowledge is better than none. > > 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. > > > > As a sidenote, perhaps its the time to introduce some sort of package/ports > > usage data gathering to FreeBSD just like Debian/Ubuntu are doing it, that > > would be anonymous and optional? > > 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. > The useragent for pkg is pkg/version :D
Exactly for that purpose regards, Bapt
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