GNU bug report logs - #29485
perl-geo-ip has /usr/share/ within the code

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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is>
To: 29485 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29485: perl-geo-ip has /usr/share/ within the code
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:53:37 +0000

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> I'm searching for a good solution to analyze some logs. Geo::IP
> is good enough. Now the problem is this:
> 
> user <at> 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;
> 
> 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.
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They comment this in the file:
# --- unfortunately we do not know the path so we assume the
# default path /usr/local/share/GeoIP
# if thats not true, you can set $Geo::IP::PP_OPEN_TYPE_PATH

But I think we should fix it once we have the data set.
WDYT?
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