On Tuesday 18 January 2005 13:04, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Count the number of entries in the Packages / Sources file? > > You should realy count source packages I think as that better reflects > the amount of software than all the multi deb packages. > > MfG > Goswin
Quick test: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ for dist in stable testing unstable;do COUNT=`wget -q -O - http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/$dist/main/source/Sources.gz | gzip -cd | grep "^Package:" | wc -l`; echo "$dist: $COUNT";done stable: 5220 testing: 8502 unstable: 8923 -- Jorge Bernal "Koke" Personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: http://www.amedias.org/koke/ "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
