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authorAdam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>2019-01-21 18:42:27 +0000
committerAdam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>2019-01-21 18:42:27 +0000
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Amend the 20191113 entry to explain that geoipupdate must be used to
fetch the GeoIP 2 databases. Reported by: leres
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Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=490879
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@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@ you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
Where possible, you must switch to net/libmaxminddb, which uses the
newer (and fully supported) GeoIP 2 format. Unfortunately, this is
- not a drop-in replacement.
+ not a drop-in replacement. To fetch the GeoIP 2 geolocation databases,
+ whether the free or paid versions, you must use net/geoipupdate
+ (pkg install geoipupdate).
The legacy database is no longer available, and we cannot distribute
it by the Maxmind license, so the legacy GeoIP format is essentially