On 22 July 2014 02:35, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > Patrick Häcker <pa...@web.de> (2014-07-21): >> Package: debian-installer >> Severity: wishlist >> Tags: d-i l10n >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> it would be nice, if Debian installer would support GeoIP to use default >> values where appropriate. See >> http://henrich-on-debian.blogspot.de/2014/07/geoip-support-for-installer-is-really.html >> for an example. >> >> This would probably change the required order of the installer steps. But as >> a start, it would probably be enough to check if a DHCP enabled network >> interface is available and use GeoIP only then. Otherwise the normal steps >> should be executed. >> >> Kind regards >> Patrick > > I don't think we're going to set up networking without asking, let alone > contacting some service on the internets to figure out what country the > user might be in. I'm happy to hear what other d-i developers have to > say about this though. >
So in Ubuntu, ubiquity & d-i do have geoip support added via tzsetup package. (https://launchpad.net/bugs/229884). They do so by contacting geoip service hosted by Canonical http://geoip.ubuntu.com/lookup , which is run on anonymous basis with no logs collected. (There is also connectivity check (to catch captive portals) & geoname predictor services used by ubiquity on similar anonymous terms - http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check and http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=Moskva ) geoip.ubuntu.com/lookup is not open-sourced, but it's just a tiny python script that uses python-geoip package & data from geoip-database package. But it looks like there are also further database updates taken from https://www.maxmind.com/en/home . I'll work on open-sourcing that trivial python script. The logic currently is opt-out - e.g. if timezone is not already preseeded, an attempt will be made to query the server for timezone. One can also pre-seed empty server address, and thus disable the lookup. I don't know which servers and/or data fedora installer uses. For debian to do something like this, we'd ideally be hosting our own service somewhere. I don't know if we wish for this to be opt-in or opt-out, or something in-between e.g. If network is already configured, and no timezone has been preseeded, do the auto-check. Or if we should be simply asking the question if one wishes to attempt auto-detection at that point vs choose manually. -- Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/canbhlui4mkyrry8ne9aiw9j_robdt6wvfa_dz8vfm6zfa0g...@mail.gmail.com
