svn commit: r490879 - head
Adam Weinberger
adamw at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jan 21 18:42:29 UTC 2019
Author: adamw
Date: Mon Jan 21 18:42:27 2019
New Revision: 490879
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/490879
Log:
Amend the 20191113 entry to explain that geoipupdate must be used to
fetch the GeoIP 2 databases.
Reported by: leres
Modified:
head/UPDATING
Modified: head/UPDATING
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--- head/UPDATING Mon Jan 21 18:39:37 2019 (r490878)
+++ head/UPDATING Mon Jan 21 18:42:27 2019 (r490879)
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ you update your ports collection, before attempting an
Where possible, you must switch to net/libmaxminddb, which uses the
newer (and fully supported) GeoIP 2 format. Unfortunately, this is
- not a drop-in replacement.
+ not a drop-in replacement. To fetch the GeoIP 2 geolocation databases,
+ whether the free or paid versions, you must use net/geoipupdate
+ (pkg install geoipupdate).
The legacy database is no longer available, and we cannot distribute
it by the Maxmind license, so the legacy GeoIP format is essentially
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