On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:40:15PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Am 29.07.2020 um 11:32 schrieb Joerg Dorchain: > > Package: libpam-geoip > > Version: 2.1.1-1 > > > > Hello, > > > > I used to have a working setup with libpam-geoip as > > > > account required pam_geoip.so debug system_file=/etc/security/geoip.conf > > geoip_db=/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat > > > > After upgrading to this version, I find in authlog > > PASSV: pam_geoip(dovecot:account): failed to open geoip db > > (/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat - The MaxMind DB file contains invalid > > metadata) > > > > This renders the geoip line rather useless. > > > > Besides, there is no hint of any potentials incompatibilities > > during upgrade, neither an upgrade path mentioned. > > > > FYI, the /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat on my system is provided > > by the package geoip-database-extra version 20181108-1 > > see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953577 > > The old package is not maintained anymore, upstream is "dead" so I have > decided to switch to this fork, using the new maxmind geoip2 databases. > You have to get the files from maxmind.com, since there is no package > for the databases, yet. > Maybe packaging them is also not possible, because of license issues > (same with the v1 database now).
I am still on the learning curve for the new version, so please bear with me. Maybe adding a conflicts: or breaks: -line for the package for the old geoip-database* packages would be a decent hint that things are quite different now on the technical level. Thanks for the quick reply! Bye, Joerg
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