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Bug#768979: Thanks and geoipupdate for free GeoLite users



Thanks so much for packaging all of these!

Although it is poorly advertised, geoipupdate can actually be used with the free GeoLite databases, e.g., with the GeoIP.conf file:

UserId 999999
LicenseKey 000000000000
ProductIds 506 533


I think it would be reasonable to use this as a default in a general package. The GeoLite2 databases should work too with the product IDs of "GeoLite2-City" and "GeoLite2-Country", but there appears to be an issue with the deployment of them for geoipupdate currently.

Hopefully in the future we will clean up that fake UserId/LicenseKey, but even as it stands, this is preferable for most people to using a homemade script for downloading as it only downloads if the file has changed, verifies the MD5s before deploy, and safely moves the verified files over the old files.

Greg

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