Inspired by Md’s efforts to provide numbers showing how many packages have been downloaded off ftp.it.debian.org, I decided to try to get the same numbers for another mirror. The admin of ftp.se volunteered his logs, and I ran a small, ugly shell snippet[1] on the logs to extract the number of downloaded packages:

The numbers include some amd64 downloads, but this is such a small number that it won’t have skewed the numbers significantly so they are included for completeness.

[1]: bzcat */httpd_2005-02-*.bz2| perl -ne '/_([[:alnum:]]+)\.deb/ and do {$arches{$1}++}; END {foreach $key (keys %arches) { print $arches{$key}, " $key\n"}}' | sort -rn

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