[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 1/2] geoip: new package

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Gustavo, All,

On 2014-06-22 19:47 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias spake thusly:
> On 06/22/2014 07:40 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > Then would it make sense to package geoipudate instead, either or both
> > as a target and/or a host package:
> >     https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate
> > 
> >     The GeoIP Update program performs automatic updates of GeoIP2 and
> >     GeoIP Legacy binary databases.
> > 
> > That way, the user can get it with a post-build script, and/or a
> > cron-like job on the target, to be up-to-date.
> 
> Geoipupdate is for commercial users AFAIK, i have no such access/account
> to test the package. You need to configure a maxmind user/password to
> make it work, it's not an out-of-the-box experience.

Well, I don't see where the problem lies. There's nothing that prevents
us from packaging geoipupdate, even if it requires a runtime
configuration with a login+password.

That's basically the same as for a webserver: we do package more than
one webserver, but the user is still responsible for providing the
content of the server-root.

> Someone who has might be interested to make it though.

I agree with you on that. ;-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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