Bug 387771

Actually, webalizer 2.20-01 was released which includes the "webalizer xtended" changes. It would be great to update Fedora webalizer to this new version as it also includes other bug fixes.

http://www.webalizer.com/download.html

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Updating to F10. I would actually prefer Fedora make webalizer be "webalizer xtended" since it looks like the author made a new release on 18-SEP-2008 and has implemented additional features such as grouping agents whose string contains a space (such as grouping by Firefox version). 

The author of the original webalizer is unresponsive--I sent a small, clean patch to the mailing list months ago.

The webalizer upstream seems to be alive again, so, shipping a fork of webalizer doesn't seem necessary or prudent at this point.

If you're interested in getting the "xtended" features in Fedora I'd recommend working towards getting the upstream folks to integrate the changes into the canonical webalizer code base.

I do not really understand why the simple step to take http://www.patrickfrei.ch/webalizer/ including geoIP-Support and replace the old webalizer is so complex

There is even a src.rpm for centos and until fedora 8 it was no problem ro build it for fedora, i'm not a c-programmer to get out why it does not build with geoip enabled on f9/f10, but i think anybody who understand the background could fix this in a few minutes

http://www.patrickfrei.ch/webalizer/downloads_other_os.html

Joe-- so you are updating webalizer to the latest upstream? 

I see from the changelog that fedora is shipping a bunch of patches, some of which are fixed in the latest upstream. Did the webalizer maintainer accept the Fedora patches? The webalizer ChangeLog is vague:
ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/CHANGES

Unfortunately the user agent sniffing patches were not fixed. I submitted a small patch against 2.20 which I will attach. In my case I want to be able to differentiate browser type, OS, and architecture (32 vs 64 bit).

By the way, Reindl, you could become a maintainer for webalizer-xtended if you want to see it in Fedora:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers#Get_Involved

> you could become a maintainer

My problem is that i have no idea why it will no build on latest fedora-installations and i'm only web-developer without any c/c++ knowhow

weblizer-extended originally links geoip static, so i had to rebuild geoip with modified options, also a thing which breaks the fedora-guidelines, its only ok for own usage, at thios time i'm lucky that the lastest binarys also running with fedoa10 - but thats not enough skills to get maintainer :-)

Created attachment 331056 [details]
Patch against upstream webalizer-2.20