Bug#757723: geoip-database: Would be nice to have GeoLite2 databases packaged

2014-08-20 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 12.08.2014 um 23:25 schrieb Gregory Oschwald: From my last information GeoIP2 is a complete rewrite and not finished for productive environments, yet. Maybe it also would be better to provide geoip and "geoip2" as seperate source packages.. Yes, they are different formats. The

Bug#757723: geoip-database: Would be nice to have GeoLite2 databases packaged

2014-08-12 Thread Gregory Oschwald
> From my last information GeoIP2 is a complete rewrite and not finished > for productive environments, yet. Maybe it also would be better to > provide geoip and "geoip2" as seperate source packages.. > Yes, they are different formats. The new format is production ready. The C API is unlikely to c

Bug#757723: geoip-database: Would be nice to have GeoLite2 databases packaged

2014-08-12 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 12.08.2014 um 05:06 schrieb Gregory Oschwald: > Although MaxMind does not provide a writer for the legacy database > format, it does provide a writer for the format used by GeoLite2 / GeoIP2: > > https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Writer-perl > > There is also a specification at: > > https

Bug#757723: geoip-database: Would be nice to have GeoLite2 databases packaged

2014-08-11 Thread Gregory Oschwald
Although MaxMind does not provide a writer for the legacy database format, it does provide a writer for the format used by GeoLite2 / GeoIP2: https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB-Writer-perl There is also a specification at: https://github.com/maxmind/MaxMind-DB/blob/master/MaxMind-DB-spec.md

Bug#757723: geoip-database: Would be nice to have GeoLite2 databases packaged

2014-08-11 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 11.08.2014 um 16:25 schrieb Andrew Moise: Hm, I'm not too familiar with geoip or its situation in Debian. My thought for how to handle this would be to package the GeoLite2 databases (not .csv but .mmdb) and the APIs for them that Maxmind provides, both as packages that are separate from t

Bug#757723: geoip-database: Would be nice to have GeoLite2 databases packaged

2014-08-11 Thread Andrew Moise
Hm, I'm not too familiar with geoip or its situation in Debian. My thought for how to handle this would be to package the GeoLite2 databases (not .csv but .mmdb) and the APIs for them that Maxmind provides, both as packages that are separate from the existing geoip packages. But, I would mostly d

Bug#757723: geoip-database: Would be nice to have GeoLite2 databases packaged

2014-08-11 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Hello, the problem is not that they do not provide the data sources (.csv), but there is no way to build those .csv data to the binary format required by GeoIP itself. If you are skilled in C++ you may extend the geoip-generator from the Debian geoip sources itself. If there is a way to build

Bug#757723: geoip-database: Would be nice to have GeoLite2 databases packaged

2014-08-10 Thread Andrew Moise
Package: geoip-database Version: 20140710-1 Severity: wishlist Hello. It would be nice to have packaged up the free city data that maxmind now makes available: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ Thanks for your time, take care. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT