2012/7/17 Bill Allombert <bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:17:08PM +0200, Stéphane Blondon wrote: >> The list of packages provided by the debian repository seems to be a >> good start to me. >> For example for an AMD64 arch processor: >> - >> http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/binary-amd64/Packages.bz2 >> - the same archive for contrib and non-free (?) > > But how do you perform the check client-side ?
I see two solutions: - download the Packages.bz2 from http ou ftp server, uncompress and keep only the package names. or - use files in /var/lib/apt/lists to rebuild the packages names. On my computer, the file ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages seems to be a good start. I don't know exactly how it works (with IndexDiff) but they are text files so I think it's doable. Then, only stats from packages listed in the previous generated list are sended. The first way needs a network connection but popCon needs network to send the stats, so I don't think it's a problem. root@foehn:/var/lib/apt/lists# LANG=C; ls -l total 75152 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 198615 Jul 17 22:24 ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_InRelease -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29021698 Jul 17 16:15 ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7876 Jul 17 16:15 ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages.IndexDiff -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18902880 Jul 17 04:14 ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7876 Jul 17 04:14 ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-en.IndexDiff -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3167707 Jul 17 16:15 ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-fr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7819 Jul 17 16:15 ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_i18n_Translation-fr.IndexDiff -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25521688 Jul 17 16:18 ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_source_Sources -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7876 Jul 17 16:18 ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_main_source_Sources.IndexDiff -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jul 26 2010 lock drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 18 01:02 partial -- Imprimez ce message en A2 et en couleur au moins 500 fois! Brûlez des arbres!! -- envoyé depuis ma centrale à charbon Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
