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Hi Jari,

Thanks for packaging this.

On 21-Feb-2006 8:20, Jari Aalto wrote:
> PACKAGE DESCRIPTION
> ===================
>
> Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geoip/
> License : GPL
>
> GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP
> address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database that is
> accurate as of March 2002. (...)
Actually, the database included appears to be from September 2005:
$ geoiplookup -v
GEO-106FREE 20050901 Build 1 Copyright (c) 2005 MaxMind LLC All Rights
Reserved

Any particular reason why you didn't include the latest database, from
<http://www.maxmind.com/app/geoip_country>?
$ cd /usr/share/GeoIP
$ wget http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIP.dat.gz
$ mv GeoIP.dat GeoIP.dat.OLD
$ gunzip GeoIP.dat.gz
$ geoiplookup -v
GEO-106FREE 20060201 Build 1 Copyright (c) 2006 MaxMind LLC All Rights
Reserved

Wouldn't it be a good idea to package the data file separately from the
tools, perhaps? This would allow for (monthly, ideally) updates of the
data file without having to reinstall the tools.

Also, the man page lists a non-existing "-l" flag.

Finally, any particular reason why GeoIP.dat has executable permissions?

Cheers,

– Michael

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