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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
	"Pjotr Prins" <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GeoIP database redistribution?
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 22:54:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737g85dkd.fsf@kirby.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87inp45evv.fsf@gnu.org>

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> 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.

Just to note, I don't think Pjotr was referring to this particular
package (geolite database). I just checked, and the City DB is 19.8MiB
compressed and 104.1 MiB uncompressed. The Country DB is ~2MiB and the
IPv6 databases are tiny.

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      reply	other threads:[~2017-01-24 21:54 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
2017-01-24 21:54       ` Marius Bakke [this message]

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