I'd like to correct some things mentioned here. On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:48:46PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Are you humoring us? ;) > > Is it really that hard to make that out?
Yes. > Just login to ftp.iitm.ac.in , go to the mirror directory root and type: > > $ du -hsc * > > Or to any of the public mirrors, rsync, ftp or http. This is wrong. For the Debian case, all packages are arranged in the pool directory. By this, I mean ALL architectures. Now, you could do a find -iname '*amd64*deb', but even that wouldn't give you a good estimate, since that misses the architecture independent packages. So, you'd have to look for 'all*deb' as well. Naturally, these find statements would be somewhat inaccurate from the getgo. The same thing holds for Ubuntu. For CentOS, you could use the x86_64 filter, but even that could be a little tricky. In addition, you'd have to handle the noarch RPMs. One way to get an estimate (and even to create a mirror) would be to look at the size of the complete DVD images. For instance, for Debian, going from http://www.debian.org/CD to the DVD image list provides 10 DVD images. That would roughly mean a 44 GB footprint. This would also be without the x86 packages, so if you intend using it for multiarch, you need many extra packages. > OpenBSD 5.3 i386 packages alone take up 17 Gigs. Are these binary or source packages? Please let me know if this makes sense. Thanks. Kumar -- : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Command execution timing LOST #196 To see how long it takes a command to run, type the word "time" before the command name. Try: #time updatedb ####[genesis (at) istar.ca]################################### : _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
