From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GeoIP database redistribution?
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:20:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170124082002.GF11257@macbook42.flashner.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170124060621.GA30899@mail.thebird.nl>
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 06:06:21AM +0000, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> 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.
>
The other thing is that guix downloads the files into ram and then
writes them into the store, which can be a problem if the source is
larger than the available memory.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-24 8:20 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 [this message]
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
2017-01-24 21:54 ` Marius Bakke
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