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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2019 10:37:54 -0800
From:      Craig Leres <leres@freebsd.org>
To:        Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, sunpoet@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dirk Meyer <dinoex@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r490700 - in head: . www/geolizer www/webalizer www/webalizer/files
Message-ID:  <c7a1d0dc-b37c-e24d-5df3-3adf448bd7a7@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAP7rwchgFphTCVavnXggD1Li01QxcmMRyXn3Lps8GT=-%2BpCmGw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201901190708.x0J78MPd044747@repo.freebsd.org> <15960fbc-ffab-70fd-a248-d912c4b7ed3f@freebsd.org> <CAP7rwchgFphTCVavnXggD1Li01QxcmMRyXn3Lps8GT=-%2BpCmGw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 1/19/19 8:22 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 2:10 PM Craig Leres <leres@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/18/19 11:08 PM, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>>> +20190119:
>>> +  AFFECTS: users of german/webalizer2, japanese/webalizer, polish/webalizer2, portuguese/webalizer-pt_BR, portuguese/webalizer-pt_PT, ukrainian/webalizer, www/geolizer, www/webalizer
>>> +  AUTHOR:dinoex@FreeBSD.org
>>> +
>>> +  The option GEOIP has beeen changed to used the new datebase.
>>> +  Either copy GeoLite2-Country.mmdb in the working directory,
>>> +  or set the GeoIPDatabase option to the location of the file.
>>
>> Thanks for bringing geoip support back to webalizer!
>>
>> Would it be a good idea for UPDATING to also mention that
>> net/geoipupdate is used to download the GeoLite2 version of the
>> database?
> 
> It's really net/libmaxminddb that should probably have that message,
> because that is true for all GeoIP 2 users (Cc: sunpoet for this).

Concur. But I also think putting something in UPDATING would be really 
helpful to people migrating from GeoIP 1 to 2. Certainly it took me a 
few minutes to figure out net/geoipupdate was what I needed to download 
the new format database files.

>> Perhaps even include the new webalizer.conf GeoIPDatabase line:
>>
>>       GeoIPDatabase /usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb
> 
> It would make sense to me for that to be the default for webalizer.

I agree with this as well.

		Craig



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