FS#65043 - [geoip2-database] Failure to build from source

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by kpcyrd (kpcyrd) - Saturday, 04 January 2020, 13:48 GMT
Last edited by Massimiliano Torromeo (mtorromeo) - Thursday, 27 February 2020, 23:35 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Massimiliano Torromeo (mtorromeo)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
There was a change recently that changed how the geoip databases can be downloaded:

https://blog.maxmind.com/2019/12/18/significant-changes-to-accessing-and-using-geolite2-databases/

This breaks the current PKGBUILD which downloads from the old geolite.maxmind.com urls.

Steps to reproduce:
makepkg
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Closed by  Massimiliano Torromeo (mtorromeo)
Thursday, 27 February 2020, 23:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Massimiliano Torromeo (mtorromeo) - Thursday, 27 February 2020, 23:34 GMT
geoip2-database has been removed in favour of the geoipupdate tool.
Unfortunately this requires the creation of a MaxMind account but I don't see any other options.

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