[pkgdb] GeoIP (un)retirement

[Paul Wouters]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Paul Howarth wrote:

> On 10/22/2012 10:45 AM, Fedora PackageDB wrote:
>> Package GeoIP in Fedora 17 has been retired by mfleming
>> 
>> To make changes to this package see:
>>    https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/GeoIP
>
> What's the story with this? Has something happened upstream?
>
> I currently use GeoIP for proftpd's mod_geoip module, which I'll have to 
> discontinue if GeoIP goes away.

Perhaps look at "geome". I'm upstream, so I could add a mode to match
GeoIP output if that matters to you.

[paul at thinkpad ~]$ geome
{"city": "Toronto", "street_number": "700", "country": "Canada",
"region": "Ontario", "long": -79.4031778, "county": "Toronto Division",
"street": "King St W", "postal_code": "M6J", "country_code": "CA",
"lat": 43.6440866, "accuracy": 30.0}

Paul