Bug 1295795 - Missing recent GeoIP related packages
Summary: Missing recent GeoIP related packages
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: GeoIP
Version: epel7
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Paul Howarth
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-05 13:32 UTC by Niels Basjes
Modified: 2016-01-07 15:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-01-07 15:38:48 UTC
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Description Niels Basjes 2016-01-05 13:32:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

I tried to install GeoIP, GeoIP-GeoLite-data and GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra on CentOS 7.2.

The problem is that the base repo for CentOS still has GeoIP 1.5.0-9.el7 and the error I got was very clear:

Processing Conflict: GeoIP-GeoLite-data-2015.12-1.el7.noarch conflicts GeoIP < 1.6.4-3

There is no GeoIP or geoipupdate available at all in the EPEL 7 repo, only the datafiles. These RPMs ARE available in the EPEL 6 repo.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible: 100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. CentOS 7.2
2. Enable EPEL
3. yum install GeoIP*

Actual results:
Processing Conflict: GeoIP-GeoLite-data-2015.12-1.el7.noarch conflicts GeoIP < 1.6.4-3

Expected results:
The software and all data being installed.

Additional info:

I was able to get things running by installing GeoIP and geoipupdate from the CentOS 6 EPEL repo:
yum install GeoIP-GeoLite-data*
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/GeoIP-1.6.5-1.el6.x86_64.rpm https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/geoipupdate-2.2.1-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2016-01-05 13:48:55 UTC 
Oh dear, the EPEL-7 build of GeoIP-GeoLite-data should never have been done, as GeoIP* is provided by the base operating system.

I am going to have to retire GeoIP-GeoLite-data from EPEL-7 to prevent this from happening again.

Thanks for letting me know.

You should be able to revert to the original packages using yum shell:

# yum shell
> remove GeoIP-GeoLite-data
> remove geoipupdate
> downgrade GeoIP
> run
Comment 2 Niels Basjes 2016-01-05 14:11:47 UTC 
Ok, but the base CentOS is still at GeoIP 1.5.0 ...
Isn't that a problem?
Comment 3 Paul Howarth 2016-01-05 14:17:59 UTC 
(In reply to Niels Basjes from comment #2)
> Ok, but the base CentOS is still at GeoIP 1.5.0 ...
> Isn't that a problem?

Possibly, but I would expect RHEL/CentOS to have addressed any security issues that might be present.

I can't do anything in EPEL that would replace a base RHEL/CentOS package.
Comment 4 Niels Basjes 2016-01-05 14:29:53 UTC 
Understood.
Comment 5 Philip Prindeville 2016-01-05 18:48:44 UTC 
(In reply to Niels Basjes from comment #4)
> Understood.

Suggest you file a bug against GeoIP (with the product set to RHEL 7) asking for a version bump.
Comment 6 Paul Howarth 2016-01-07 15:38:48 UTC 
GeoIP-GeoLite-data has now been removed from the EPEL-7 repository, so this issue shouldn't crop up again.
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