[Nix-dev] Missing GeoIP databases

[Bjørn Forsman]

On 10 February 2015 at 20:34, Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com> wrote:
> 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.

The geoip packages used by our ntopng expression are free
(http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/). But I don't see any
versioned archives; they only have unversioned archives that are
updated every month :/

- Bjørn