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

Wed Apr 27 19:57:13 CEST 2011

On 27 April 2011 14:32, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> Le mercredi 27 avril 2011 à 10:43 +0200, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+>> 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.
+>
+> Well, there is a test suite for perl-Geo-IP or perl-Apache-GeoIP, I
+> guess it could be run ?
+>
+
+Good idea, I'll do that today in a clean chroot.
+
+> How many software are linked to libGeoIP.so.1 ?
+>
+
+Not that many:
+$ urpmf --requires GeoIP
+lib64geoipupdate0:libGeoIP.so.1()(64bit)
+geoip:libGeoIP.so.1()(64bit)
+geoip:libGeoIPUpdate.so.0()(64bit)
+lib64geoip-devel:devel(libGeoIP(64bit))
+perl-Geo-IP:libGeoIP.so.1()(64bit)
+perl-Apache-GeoIP:perl-base[>= 2:5.12.2]
+perl-Apache-GeoIP:perl(Geo::IP)[>= 1.270.0]
+php-geoip:libGeoIP.so.1()(64bit)
+cherokee:libGeoIP.so.1()(64bit)
+ntop:libGeoIP.so.1()(64bit)
+lib64torrent-rasterbar-devel:devel(libGeoIP(64bit))
+lib64torrent-rasterbar6:libGeoIP.so.1()(64bit)
+lib64wireshark-devel:devel(libGeoIP(64bit))
+lib64wireshark0:libGeoIP.so.1()(64bit)
+
+>
+> --
+> Michael Scherer
+>
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+