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On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 06:50:17 +0800 |
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W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Not sure that is an official site ... |
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> The question came from a couple of posts where debian is showing ~17000 |
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> packages and Fedora a couple of thousand less. They were bemoaning the |
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> size of the install media. |
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Don't these people have access to the worldwideintarwebthingy? why |
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download media you don't need? just install the packages you want over a |
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network. |
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Where does the thousands come from with fedora? I count 965 source rpms |
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on a fedora mirror i looked at. |
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on the same mirror there were 1483 binary rpm's. of those 299 have |
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"devel" in the filename, so will have been from a "split" build - ie one |
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foo.src.rpm may become foo.i386.rpm, foo-devel.i386.rpm, |
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foo-xorg.i386.rpm, foo-doc.i386.rpm etc. |
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This filter shows me how many binary rpm's have unique names up the the |
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first hyphen, : |
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grep i386.rpm fedora.filelist |cut -d- -f1|sort|uniq|wc -l |
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which gives 693 - but I don't know if thats an accurate way to tell if a |
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built package comes from the same source package. |
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But my real question is - how do you get thousands of fedora packages? |
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so you have to scratch around private repositories looking for the ones |
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with the stuff you want? |
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>The difference between distros is most |
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> likely little used packages, and the fact that rpm's for instance split |
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> headers and sometimes aux functions into separate packages, |
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> approximately doubling the package count. I presume debian do the same. |
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yes they do. usually called -dev rather than -devel from what i can see. |
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> billk |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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