Bug#607488: ITP: geoip-database-contrib -- MaxMind GeoIP (lite) binary database downloader script

[Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>]

Ludovico Cavedon schrieb am Sunday, den 19. December 2010:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Ludovico Cavedon <cavedon@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : geoip-database-contrib
>   Version         : 1.0
>   Upstream Author : Ludovico Cavedon <cavedon@debian.org>
> * URL             : http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/geoip-database-contrib.git
> * License         : GPL-2+
>   Programming Lang: bash
>   Description     : MaxMind GeoIP (lite) binary database downloader script
> 
>  GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP
>  address or hostname originates from. It uses a file-based database.
>  .
>  This package contains a script that downloads the latest version of the binary
>  flavour of the MaxMind GeoLite databases. In particular:
>   - GeoLite Country
>   - GeoLite Country IPv6
>   - GeoLite City
>   - GeoLite ASN
>  .
>  This database simply contains IP blocks as keys, and countries/cities/ASNs as
>  values and it should be more complete and accurate than using reverse DNS
>  lookups.
>  .
>  The MaxMind database itself is distributed under a BSD-like license. However it
>  is made available in binary only format and the source code for generating it
>  is not provided.
What makes this better than geoipupdate from the geoip-bin package? 

Alex