On 17/04/2024 00:39, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 2024-04-16 13:31, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
On 13/04/2024 14:09, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
I would like to adopt and revive the above packages with the last
("unofficial") version of the legacy code committed noted in the
ChangeLog as 1.7.0, and a new upstream source for legacy format free
databases converted when the official current upstream databases are
updated.
My very limited, vague understanding was that GeoIP is obsolete and
users should move to something newer? What packages do we have that
actually depend on this? Are there other ways to update them?
$ cygcheck-dep -nqS libGeoIP1 libmaxminddb0
libGeoIP1: is needed for ( GeoIP libdns1104 libdns1105 libdns166
libdns169 libGeoIP-devel )
libmaxminddb0: is needed for ( bind libdns1106 libmaxminddb-devel
lighttpd-mod_maxminddb )
Looks like older bind used free legacy GeoIP databases, "current" bind
uses current library and current GeoIP2 databases which require free
registration to get an API key with limits.
The new upstream source for free legacy GeoIP databases converts
upstream GeoIP2 databases and makes them available under its CC-by-4.0
licence.
The most recent bind package was built with '--without-geoip'. Does
this need to change back again?
$ cpm-sum libdns1{6{6,9},10{4,5,6}} | grep
'dns\|bind\|maxmind\|GeoIP\|depends:\|ackage:$'
Package: libdns166
depends:
cygwin, libGeoIP1, libgssapi_krb5_2, libisc160, libjson-c2, libkrb5_3,
rdepends:
dnsperf, libbind9_160, libirs160, libisccfg160
source package:
bind
I guess there's another thread to pull on here.
The code which looks for "old soversions we don't need to keep anymore"
isn't smart enough currently to realize that it can get rid of all of
these old libdns soversions.
Assuming that gets fixed (...), do we still have users?
