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

[Ahmad Samir]

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