Bug 611192

Summary:	dev-libs/geoip: geoipupdate.sh script no longer works
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hanno Böck <hanno>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674852
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	611286

Description Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2017-02-28 11:00:54 UTC

Our dev-libs/geoip package contains a script geoipupdate.sh that updates the geoip database. However it doesn't work, probably because upstream URLs changed. It also doesn't print any error message on failure, thus it may confuse users.

Given that upstream maintains its own update script and we already have an ebuild for it (net-misc/geoipupdate), the best course of action is probably to just remove it and point to the geoipupdate package.

Comment 1 Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2017-02-28 11:36:43 UTC

It seems net-misc/geoipupdate is not really working either.

It has the following problems:
* geoip expects files with different names, symlinks have to be set:
GeoIPASNum.dat -> GeoLiteASNum.dat
GeoIPCity.dat -> GeoLiteCity.dat
GeoIPCityv6.dat -> GeoLiteCityv6.dat
GeoIP.dat -> GeoLiteCountry.dat
* GeoIPASNumv6.dat is missing, but can be manually downloaded here:
https://download.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/asnum/GeoIPASNumv6.dat.gz

I'm not sure what to do here, maybe we could add a script "realgeoipupdate" to geoipupdate that runs it and does all this fixing up.

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-03-01 06:50:19 UTC

Should be fixed in -r1.