[Buildroot] [PATCHv2 1/2] geoip: new package

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Jun 22 19:54:42 UTC 2014


Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:39:22 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar>
> ---
>  package/Config.in       |  1 +
>  package/geoip/Config.in | 11 +++++++++++
>  package/geoip/geoip.mk  | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 package/geoip/Config.in
>  create mode 100644 package/geoip/geoip.mk

Thanks, applied. One comment below.

> +	  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?

Thanks!

Thomas
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