Bug 1201857 – missing IPv6 databases

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Bug 1201857 - missing IPv6 databases

Summary:	missing IPv6 databases

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	GeoIP (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	medium Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Jan Safranek
QA Contact:	Jan Ščotka
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Blocks:	1203710 1313485 1295796
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Reported:	2015-03-13 12:29 EDT by Carl George
Modified:	2016-11-04 03:41 EDT (History)
CC List:	12 users (show)

See Also:	1158667
Fixed In Version:	GeoIP-1.5.0-11.el7
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2016-11-04 03:41:42 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHEA-2016:2503	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	GeoIP bug fix update	2016-11-03 10:12:45 EDT

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Description Carl George 2015-03-13 12:29:33 EDT

Description of problem:
The GeoIP package in RHEL7 does not contain IPv6 databases.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.5.0-9.el7

How reproducible:
Install GeoIP and look in the /usr/share/GeoIP/ for IPv6 databases.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install GeoIP
2. ls /usr/share/GeoIP/

Actual results:
No IPv6 databases are available.

Expected results:
The GeoIP package in Fedora has these IPv6 databases.  I would like to have them available in EL7 as well.
/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPASNumv6.dat
/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPv6.dat
/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteASNumv6.dat
/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCityv6.dat

Additional info:
IPv6 data added to Fedora package - http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/GeoIP.git/commit/?id=84346ccb3d89c2237232db0eaca4b8545ba312e7

Comment 2 Jan Safranek 2015-03-27 05:04:27 EDT

Thanks for the bug report. While Red Hat welcomes bug reports on Red Hat products here in our public bugzilla database, please keep in mind that bugzilla is not a support tool or means of accessing support.  If you would like technical support please visit our support portal at access.redhat.com or call us for information on subscription offerings to suit your needs.

I'll leave the bug open, but it's chance to get fixed without a support ticket is quite low.

Also, you can easily work around this problem if you manually download IPv6 GeoIP databases and place them into /usr/share/GeoIP.

Comment 3 Carl George 2015-03-27 15:16:04 EDT

I just opened case #01422780.  Thanks Jan!

Comment 10 Leos Pol 2016-03-07 17:37:34 EST

Granting qa_ack.

Comment 14 Jan Safranek 2016-06-29 09:40:53 EDT

I'm adding GeoIPv6.dat into GeoIP.rpm, the package grows by 1.6 MiB (which is IMO acceptable). I'm creating new subpackage GeoIP-data with all other databases (~54 MiB total). These databases won't be updated via erratas, customers are advised to update them by standard GeoIP update scripts or manually.

Comment 16 Carl George 2016-06-29 17:54:34 EDT

Would it be possible to rebase GeoIP to at least the same version EL6 EPEL has?

EL6 EPEL:
GeoIP-1.6.5-1.el6
geoipupdate-2.2.1-2.el6

EL7 base:
GeoIP-1.5.0-9.el7

GeoIP 1.6.0 split off the update script into it's own codebase, hence the separate package.  Having the EL6 and EL7 versions match would be greatly beneficial for users with mixed environments like myself.

https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-c/releases/tag/v1.6.0
https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Comment 17 Jan Safranek 2016-06-30 07:30:04 EDT

I'm sorry, it's too late for rebase in 7.3. Please fill a separate bug (with a support ticket :-) and we may rebase the package in future updates. Still, it's quite low priority package and we may focus on more important stuff.

Comment 18 Carl George 2016-06-30 08:48:27 EDT

That's understandable.  The important part is getting the IPv6 integration.

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 03:41:42 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2016-2503.html

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