PaulHowarth/Blog/2012-10-22

Monday 22nd October 2012

Fedora Project

  • Became owner of GeoIP after it was orphaned by its current maintainer

  • Updated GeoIP in F-18 and Rawhide to do various clean-ups:

    • libGeoIPUpdate and geoipupdate are GPL-licensed, not LGPL-licensed (Bug #840896)

    • Generic INSTALL file is no longer included (Bug #661625)

    • Redundant RPATHs in 64-bit binaries are removed
    • Documentation re-coded to UTF8

Local Packages

  • Updated GeoIP to fix licensing issues and remove INSTALL file as per the Fedora version

  • Updated perl-Class-Inspector to 1.28:

    • No functional changes
    • Updating to Module::Install::DSL 1.06

  • Updated perl-File-HomeDir to 1.00:

    • No functional changes
    • Updating to Module::Install 1.06

    • Don't require documents directory on Mac under AUTOMATED_TESTING

  • Updated perl-XML-LibXML to 2.0008:

    • Fix build error when using non-standard libxml2 installation (CPAN RT#80332)


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