[Mageia-dev] Freeze push request: geoip-1.4.7

Wed Apr 27 10:43:35 CEST 2011

On 27 April 2011 10:25, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 27 April 2011 09:35, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+>> Le mercredi 27 avril 2011 à 04:25 +0200, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+>>> Please submit geoip-1.4.7, it brings a plethora of fixes.
+>>>
+>>> - This is the first new version since 2009-02-25
+>>> - This updates the binaries in SOURCE 1,3,4 , we were shipping really old ones.
+>>
+>> Well, it is a library and it also bring change besides bugfixes.
+>> ( like API addition :
+>>    * Add GeoIP_lib_version and GeoIP_cleanup ( Ladar Levison )
+>>    * Remove buffered IO functions, to fix issues with dup'ed file
+>>            descriptors ( Boris Zentner )
+>>    * Add some IPv4 helper functions
+>>    * Rename _iso_8859_1__utf8 to _GeoIP_iso_8859_1__utf8 ( Boris
+>> Zentner )
+>>    * Add more IPv6 functions ( Boris Zentner )
+>>
+>> and various changes that may be not purely internal :
+>>    * Remove AN and FX. Add SX, BQ and CW ( Boris Zentner )
+>>
+>>
+>> Did you tested it with another software using geoip that nothing
+>> requires rebuild ?
+>>
+>>
+>> --
+>> Michael Scherer
+>>
+>>
+>
+> I've just done so; qbittorrent which links against libGeoIP.so.1
+> worked OK and displayed the seeds and peers countries.
+>
+> --
+> Ahmad Samir
+>
+
+FWIW, I don't know how to test php-geoip, perl-Apache-GeoIP or perl-Geo-IP.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+