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Make the GeoIP and geoipupdate descriptions reflect reality

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The difference is no longer paid vs. unpaid. There are free
versions of the GeoIP2 databases, and they are preferred when
supported.
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Adam Weinberger 2018-09-28 12:35:42 +00:00
parent 539214bd5a
commit 26164efa00
Notes: svn2git 2021-03-31 03:12:20 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=480857
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net/GeoIP/pkg-descr
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GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any
IP address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database
that is accurate as of March 2002. This database simply contains IP blocks
as keys, and countries as values. This database should be more complete and
accurate than using reverse DNS lookups.
IP address or hostname originates from. This library supports the legacy
GeoIP database. Although it is kept up-to-date, the non-legacy database
(net/libmaxminddb) is preferable when supported.
This module can be used to automatically select the geographically closest
mirror, to analyze your web server logs to determine the countries of your
visitors, for credit card fraud detection, and for software export controls.
This port includes a helper script, geoipupdate.sh, to help you keep the
library up-to-date.
library up-to-date. The helper script will only update the legacy
database. To update GeoIP2 databases, install the geoipupdate port from
net/geoipupdate.
WWW: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy

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MASTER_SITES= https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/releases/download/v${PORTVERSION}/
MAINTAINER= adamw@FreeBSD.org
COMMENT= Fetch the latest copies of the paid GeoIP database
COMMENT= Fetch the latest copies of the paid GeoIP2 databases
LICENSE= GPLv2
LICENSE_FILE= ${WRKSRC}/LICENSE

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net/geoipupdate/pkg-descr
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This program is used to fetch the GeoIP2 and GeoIP databases. It requires
an active GeoIP subscription.
This program is used to fetch and update the GeoIP2 databases. By
default it fetches the free databases, but it can also manage
the paid databases with an active GeoIP subscription.
Please see https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolocation_landing for details about
obtaining a subscription.
If you wish to install the free versions of the GeoIP databases, please
use the geoipudate.sh script provided in net/GeoIP.
Please see https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolocation_landing for details
about obtaining an optional subscription.
WWW: https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate