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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