[Nix-dev] Missing GeoIP databases

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 10/02/15 19:50, Christoph-Simon Senjak wrote:

> I installed geoip, and GEOIPLOOKUP(1) says the databases should be in 
> /nix/store/b952llxwhpd8046r40xkkkjgg1vmcw7q-geoip-1.6.2/share/GeoIP but 
> ... they are not. Is this intentional or is this a bug?

More or less intentional, since the upstream geoip package does not contain a
database. So you should download it yourself and pass the path on the command
line or via the API.

However, if there is a free (as in freedom) database somewhere, we could include
that by default.

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