From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Danny Milosavljevic Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 12/17] gnu: Add perl-geo-ip. Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 00:50:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20160809005004.5af8fa60@scratchpost.org> References: <20160728213833.22057-1-dannym@scratchpost.org> <20160728213833.22057-13-dannym@scratchpost.org> <20160808194616.GC18650@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWtN9-0004Ol-Dj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:50:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWtN5-0003Mo-7a for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:50:14 -0400 Received: from dd1012.kasserver.com ([85.13.128.8]:60100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bWtN5-0003Ln-1Z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2016 18:50:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160808194616.GC18650@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 15:46:16 -0400 Leo Famulari wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:38:28PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > > +;; TODO: Use the geolite-mirror-simple.pl script from the example > > +;; directory to stay current with the databases. How? > > Good question. Any progress? Not really. The same problem should have existed with (glibc) timezone files, leap seconds and hddtemp config data. How has it been handled there? (Aha, hddtemp is missing entirely) > I don't think it should block the package, right? No. I think that geoip locations are approximate anyway, so whether or not the database is up to date is not so important.