From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 19:34:19 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 1/2] geoip: new package In-Reply-To: <20140622215442.4c060328@free-electrons.com> References: <1403015963-27278-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <20140622215442.4c060328@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <53A759EB.8090702@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 06/22/2014 04:54 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: >> + GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find geographical >> + and network information of an IP address. >> + To use this library, you need to download MaxMind's free GeoLite or >> + commercial GeoIP binary databases into the target's /usr/share/GeoIP >> + directory in uncompressed form. > > Wouldn't it make sense to create a package for the free database, so > that GeoIP can be useful out of the box? As the current infra is right now, not really, even with fixes i wouldn't go for it. That's because the tarball naming is fixed (no hash, timestamp or anything) and they change at least daily, so an old sources.buildroot.net copy/mirror could be really old. Even if we can say "don't mirror it" the same can happen to people with their local copy. Regards.