Re: GeoIP database redistribution?

[ng0]

Hi!

It's better to reply late than never. My latency on some tasks
is high.
For anyone reading the old thread and wondering WTF happened,
I've just re-read the thread and giving it shot soon as I want
to analyze some logs and we already have a Perl module that
wants this DB. I prefer Guix supplied solutions when I can make
use of it, so long text short nonsense: I'll package it.
Thanks for the provided feedback everyone.

And Pjotr, the mentioning of TB's without any reference to an
external project really threw me off. Just specify the "We" next time ;)

ng0 transcribed 2.4K bytes:
> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 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 <address@hidden> 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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> 
> TB? Oh. Due to cloudflare I had no clue how big this is. In this
> case, for the current state of the way we distribute packages is
> not itself using a distributed network (if just keeping the space
> on hydra is the problem?), I would suggest that I package the
> updater I mentioned and mention it in the description for other
> MaxMind software.
> 
> This database is also an optional dependency for tor and not just
> ooni if I understand it correctly, so even if it's not 100%
> accurate (their commercial solution claims to be more accurate)
> it would be nice to find a way to include it.
> But I think size is really an issue, for example Gentoo dropped
> the database from their source distribution network and points
> users to the updater I mentioned (that's how I learned about the
> updater).
> -- 
> ♥Ⓐ  ng0 -- https://www.inventati.org/patternsinthechaos/
> 

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