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I'd like to know how many binary and source packages Red Hat provides with their current RHEL 6.4 Release.

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    if you're a subscriber, maybe you can just enable update and source repositories and execute yum list > package-list.txt, then count lines of the file?
    – LiuYan 刘研
    Commented Mar 1, 2013 at 12:11
  • If not, look at the package list for CentOS. But remember that CentOS doesn't have separate "server" and "workstation" setups, all packages are in the same repository. In any case, raw number of packages is meaningless, what you should look at is if what you need is available (and also what you reasonably might need in the future).
    – vonbrand
    Commented Mar 1, 2013 at 13:00
  • @vonbrand: sure, the raw package number is not really important. I just need it for some statistics.
    – tlo
    Commented Mar 1, 2013 at 15:13
  • @LiuYan刘研: Yeah, thought about that one, too. Probably the best way. For source packages I think I found a solution with some shell/perl magic: wget -q -O - http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/ | grep 'src.rpm' | perl -p -e 's,.*href="([a-zA-Z0-9-_.+]+?)-[0-9].*".*,$1,' | sort -u | wc -l
    – tlo
    Commented Mar 1, 2013 at 15:16
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    Alan Robertson once said: "There are lies, dammed lies and there is statistics". What statistics are these? This question does not make any sense to me...
    – Nils
    Commented Mar 2, 2013 at 21:26

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For the record, there is no easy way to get the number of packages in RHEL. As Nils and vonbrand pointed out, it is important to say, that it does not say anything about the distribution and that there are a lot of additional channels/repos in RHEL.

Nevertheless, to answer the orignal question, this is what I came up with (run on a RHEL 6.4 system):

  • Binary packages:

    yum list | egrep "(rhel-x86_64-server-6|RedHatEnterpriseLinux)" | wc -l

    --> 3742 packages

  • Source packages: 

    wget -q -O - http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/ | grep 'src.rpm' | perl -p -e 's,.*href="([a-zA-Z0-9-_.+]+?)-[0-9].*".*,$1,' | sort -u | wc -l

    --> 2187 packages

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