On 9/5/24 3:49 PM, pitastrudl wrote:
As far as I'm aware from a mirrors standpoint there is no way of knowing the frequency of installment as all packages are mirrored from T0 and then spread out to other mirrors that are out of our observation. Since T0 is just accessed by T1s, that is not a useful metric. Even if you'd get logs from other mirrors, those are just downloaded packages which you have no idea if they are installed or just downloaded for whatever reason.
Thank you for your reply! I suspected that may be the case but had no way to confirm. Maybe with future systems something like that may be available. Even the T1 mirror data would give a rough idea. It's probably reasonable to assume that an overwhelming majority of downloads are installs - there may be a point or two that are just downloaded for other reasons, but there isn't much else you can do with a binary package -- other than install it (for most packages). For now it is enough to know that the data isn't readily available. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.