Re: Measuring testing vs stable vs oldstable usage from security mirrors logs
On 08/08/13 at 18:41 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 06:01:56PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 08/08/13 at 16:45 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:00:15AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > > I would be very interested in getting an idea of testing vs stable vs
> > > > oldstable usage, and I was wondering if the security mirror logs could
> > > > be used for that.
> > >
> > > Note we can access ftp.debian.org backends, that may give different figures
> > > that access to security archive.
> > >
> > > We also have the chance to have some very responsive admins of officials
> > > mirrors, we can come with a script they may run.
>
> We may ask them "over last month, number of unique ip which have been served by
> 200 OK (ignore redirects) for (squeeze|oldstable)/Packages.(bz2|gz).
>
> Iterate over dists.
>
> [..]
> > > so:
> > > squeeze 79.5%
> > > wheezy 18.5%
> > > jessie 1,9%
> >
> > Interesting. Using popcon submissions (methodology described at
> > http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=775), I get very different
> > proportions:
> > squeeze: 41%
> > wheezy: 48%
> > jessie: 11%
> >
> > Too bad we can't filter by distinct IPs...
>
> I guess number of jessie installs have been performed based on sid, and may
> have security updates disabled ?
Err, right. It's actually machines with popcon_version >
popcon_version_in_wheezy. So testing+unstable.
Lucas
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