Bug#860142: libgeo-ip-perl: incompatible with geoip-database - cannot load

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting gregor herrmann (2017-04-12 22:18:11)
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:15:09 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> 
> > it seems there is an incompatibility between the geoip-database shipped in
> > Debian and the module Geo::IP.
> > 
> > Trying to do (according to the docs):
> >       use Geo::IP;
> >       my $gi = Geo::IP->new(GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE);
> >       my $record = $gi->record_by_addr($ip);
> > results in:
> >       Invalid database type GeoIP Country Edition, expected GeoIP City Edition, Rev 1
> > 
> > Same with
> >       my $gi = Geo::IP->open( '/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat', GEOIP_MEMORY_CACHE );
> 
> I haven't tried it yet but my impression is that the record_by_addr()
> method wants a city database:
> 
> Code:
> *record_by_addr = \&get_city_record_as_hash;
> 
> POD:
> 
>   use Geo::IP;
>   my $gi = Geo::IP->open("/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat", GEOIP_STANDARD);
>   my $record = $gi->record_by_addr('24.24.24.24');                               
> 
> i.e. city data (GeoIPCity.dat) while the geoip-database package only
> ships the country database (GeoIP.dat).
> 
> This means that all functions that use the country .dat should work,
> and for the city-needing functions one would either need to get the
> file from https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/ or convince
> the geoip-database maintainers to ship it (or them: ipv4 + ipv6) in
> the package a well.

Debian packages geoip-database-extra or geoip-database-contrib (the 
latter in contrib) should satisfy the need for city lookups (but I 
haven't tried).

 - Jonas

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