From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:59:51 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCHv2 1/2] geoip: new package In-Reply-To: <20140623163845.GA3400@free.fr> References: <1403015963-27278-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <20140622215442.4c060328@free-electrons.com> <53A759EB.8090702@zacarias.com.ar> <20140622224049.GF21768@free.fr> <53A75D10.8050708@zacarias.com.ar> <20140623163845.GA3400@free.fr> Message-ID: <53A85D07.3070802@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 06/23/2014 01:38 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: >> 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. I disagree a bit there, but then people are free to do what they like, like shipping a probably toughly-licensed user/pass combination in plaintext in a firmware which someone else can pick up and use let's say in shady terms :) It's mostly intended for servers where access is restricted and that wouldn't happen normally. >> Someone who has might be interested to make it though. > > I agree with you on that. ;-) I like to test new packages a bit, and getting the help just doesn't feel like a proper test, hence my reluctance ;) Regards.