On Thu, 5 Sep 2013 22:06:46 +0100, Brian<ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: >On Thu 05 Sep 2013 at 22:16:39 +0200, sp113438 wrote: > >> How do I find out the number of packages currently in Sid? >> Google did not help me. > >An example: > > wget > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz > > gunzip Packages.gz > > grep ^Package: Packages | wc -l > > Nice! For fun I put together the attached perl script which can check this in a nice way - it does need some work though, it checks i386 only as it is, but can easily be modified to check other architectures. Also, I have removed most output, it downloads the gz, which can take some time if you don't have broadband. -- Andreas Rönnquist mailinglists@gusnan.se gusnan@gusnan.se
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