From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GeoIP database redistribution?
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:25:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inp45evv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170124060621.GA30899@mail.thebird.nl> (Pjotr Prins's message of "Tue, 24 Jan 2017 06:06:21 +0000")
Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl> skribis:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 07:17:12PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net> writes:
>>
>> > I want to slowly package OONI (https://ooni.torproject.org/).
>> > One of its dependencies, txtorcon, requires python-geoip which
>> > depends on geoip-c-api. I've got both covered, but both of them
>> > want (either to download or to be present) for tests (a/the)
>> > legacy database file of maxmind.
>> >
>> > Question 1: Can we distribute the database in a source? I can't
>> > access the homepage of maxmind for cloudflare reasons.
>>
>> The database is distributed freely under cc-by-sa4.0:
>>
>> https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/#License
>>
>> So packaging it should be fine. :)
>
> This actually raises the issue of packaging large data files (we are
> getting into TB's). Could there be a way Guix fetches external
> datasets as part of the distribution? I think that if it is not
> executable code and SHA values/pfff values match it would be safe to
> do.
If we do add something this big, we’ll have to make sure it’s not
substitutable and does not ever land on the build machines.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-24 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-22 16:42 GeoIP database redistribution? ng0
2017-01-23 18:17 ` Marius Bakke
2017-01-24 6:06 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-01-24 8:20 ` Efraim Flashner
2017-01-24 11:01 ` ng0
2017-11-28 16:19 ` ng0
2017-11-28 17:46 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-01-24 21:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-24 21:25 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-01-24 21:54 ` Marius Bakke
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