Re: Linux distribution HOWTO

[Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>]

On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, David Welton wrote:

 : > now?  I know there are 1500+ packages in 2.0, but how many new ones are in
 : > unstable?
 : 
 : 'Debian' does not include non-free, so this is not accurate, but:
 : 
 : @heorot [~] $ grep -c ^Package: /var/lib/dpkg/available
 : 1889

wiz:/a/ftp/linux/debian $ grep ^Package: \
dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/Packages | wc -l
   1526
wiz:/a/ftp/linux/debian $ grep ^Package: \
dists/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/Packages | wc -l
    102
wiz:/a/ftp/linux/debian $ grep ^Package: \
dists/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/Packages | wc -l
    228
wiz:/a/ftp/linux/debian $ grep ^Package: \
non-US/hamm/binary-i386/Packages | wc -l
     29

I don't know how many "new" packages are in slink - my head hurts too
badly to figure that out right now :)

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