remove the maintainer convenience target for geolite databases as there
will be no more updates to these. update MESSAGE-main.
Users should switch to geolite2 and adapt programs to using libmaxminddb
if they want to continue with the free databases. There are still a few
months left on commercial updates for geolite 1.
reminder:
GeoIP legacy databases are deprecated upstream and updates to these will stop.
The free GeoLite legacy databases will no longer be updated after 1 April 2018.
See https://blog.maxmind.com/tag/geolite-legacy/
BE AWARE! GeoIP legacy databases are deprecated upstream and updates to these
will stop. The free GeoLite legacy databases will no longer be updated after
1 April 2018. See https://blog.maxmind.com/tag/geolite-legacy/
The free GeoLite2 databases could be used instead e.g. for command line lookup:
# pkg_add libmaxminddb geolite2-country
$ mmdblookup -f /var/db/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb -i 9.9.9.9 country iso_code
(along with a maintainer Makefile target to ease updates).
Handled properly with @sample to allow user updates.
Note that upstream no longer bundles the geoipupdate tool in the main
GeoIP software distribution (thus making this package LGPL only rather
than having any GPL components). geoipupdate could be provided as a
separate port if there's interest (it's only useful for paid subs
though).
Submitted by Xavier Santolaria <xavier@santolaria.net>.
GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP
address or hostname originates from.
