Archive for January 17, 2009

Counting Debian source packages #2

Jan 17th

Posted by Julien in Weblog

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Thanks to Joerg for pointing out pkg-nums.

I was pretty sure such a tool already existed but could not find it.

At least, my script (with Thomas’ amendments) allow distinctions between sections (free, contrib, non-free) ;-) And thanks to pkg-nums, I was able to check the results.

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IPv6: Miredo link to HE Tunnel endpoint

Jan 17th

Posted by Julien in Weblog

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As announced a few weeks ago, my website should now be accessible through IPv6. The connectivity is made thanks to Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel service as recommended on Linode wiki.

At home, I use Miredo, an open-source Teredo IPv6 tunneling software for GNU/Linux and BSD. This works great with many websites. I can ping6 servers I know, like ipv6.google.com or www.debian-administration.org.
However, I cannot ping6 my Linode server until I have established a link from the linode to home. But after a while (a quarter or so), the link is dead, and I have to ping my home address again from the linode to make it alive.
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Counting Debian source packages

Jan 17th

Posted by Julien in Weblog

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Following to Kushal’s post about counting total number of Debian packages, he concluded that sid currently has more than 30,000 binary packages (free, contrib & non-free).

IMHO it is more relevant to count source packages. I couldn’t find any existing way of doing it, I have hence written a short bash script.

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