Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> writes: > A while back, someone with access to the download logs for > security.debian.org tried to estimate the number of machines downloading > security fixes for Debian, based on the assumption that no-one is using > a mirror for security fixes. I am unable to find those results using > Google right now, but would recommend trying to get hold of those > numbers to get new lower bound on the number of Debian installations.
It's worth bearing in mind that that's a bad assumption, too. We use a local security mirror in full knowledge that it's not recommended, but we watch it closely and will manually sync if need be. We do this because we have systems on IP addresses that are not routable to the Internet and need an on-campus source for all package updates. Having a local mirror is easier for our purposes than using a proxy. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
