Re: Debian architectures, according to popularity-contest
[Török Edvin]
> Afaik popularity-contest uses access-time to report statistics.
That is not entirely true. The installation count is collected using
dpkg -l. The votes on the other hand are collected using atime, and
that is less accurate and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Because of this, the package ordering on the CDs are using the install
count and not the votes.
> Will it report correct statistics if I have all of my partitions
> mounted with -o noatime?
It will correctly report that the package is installed, but most
probably not report any votes from your machine.
> Does it also consider for example how often I upgrade a package?
Not directly, but it can be seen from the file update times. See for
example
<URL:http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=ext2resize>,
and notice how 'old' and 'recent' jump up and down when people are
upgrading to a new version of the package.
Friendly,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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