Hi, The old bug #29485 is about the hard coded database of the package perl-geo-ip.
<http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/29485> On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 at 15:41, ng0 <n...@n0.is> wrote: > user@abyayala /gnu/store/5mhrli41qbcpns3gg0yf1vv07lvpg8hm-perl-geo-ip-1.51$ > egrep -nr "/usr/" lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.0/ > lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.0/Geo/IP/Record.pod:9: my $gi = > Geo::IP->open("/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat", GEOIP_STANDARD); > lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.0/Geo/IP.pm:5075:# default path > /usr/local/share/GeoIP > lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.0/Geo/IP.pm:5159: my $def_db_file = > '/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat'; > lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.0/Geo/IP.pm:5962: my $gi = > Geo::IP->open("/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat", GEOIP_STANDARD); > lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.0/Geo/IP.pm:5984: my $g = > Geo::IP->open('/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIPv6.dat') or die; > lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.0/Geo/IP.pm:6046:I<datadir>, typically > I</usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat>. > lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.0/Geo/IP.pm:6078:typically > I</usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat>. > lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.0/Geo/IP.pm:6226: my $g = > Geo::IP->open('/usr/local/share/GeoIP/GeoIPv6.dat') or die; I am reproducing this with the Guix commit f4450e8. > However this is not really a problem unless you are on GuixSD. > As we do not package the DB of MaxDB (yet) you'll need for this, it's > not a problem. I'm filing this bug to remind myself to fix Geo::IP once > I have revisited the discussion we had about the DB a while back. It is a problem and the package is broken. I am assuming this package is not used so I am proposing to simply remove it. Otherwise, the database should be also packaged, else it appears to me meaningless. All the best, simon
