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

[Ludovico Cavedon <cavedon@debian.org>]

On 12/19/2010 09:15 AM, Alexander Wirt wrote:
> Ludovico Cavedon schrieb am Sunday, den 19. December 2010:
>> * Package name    : geoip-database-contrib
>>   Description     : MaxMind GeoIP (lite) binary database downloader script
>>
> What makes this better than geoipupdate from the geoip-bin package? 

geoipupdate from the geoip-bin
-downloads the subscription based version of the database, not the free one
-downloads only the GeoIP database, and not those with the city and AS
numbers

geoip-database-contrib, instead, downloads the free version of all the
four databases (under a BSD-like license, but available only in binary
format).

The four databases are available also in CSV format but:
-the GeoIP libraries require the binary version
-the code for generating the binary version from the CSV one is not
available (except for the GeoIP.dat one), and I am not planning to write
it, at least in the short term

I hope this answers your question.

Cheers,
Ludovico