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Hello! |
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Intro |
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The latest version of webalizer is 2.01 while upstream is at 2.21 by |
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now. The reason it's not been bumped in Gentoo is the two use flags |
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"geoip" and "xtended". |
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The former alone pulls in a feature patch called "geolizer", while the |
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latter pulls a feature patch called "webalizer xtended", either with or |
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without geoip support. |
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Problem |
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Both of these patches have not been updated for quite some time. |
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To bump webalizer we would either need fresh version of both patches |
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or drop what's out of date which breaks the use flags. |
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geoip support is included in webalizer itself by now. Still, geoalizer |
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added a bit more than that: human-readable byte units might still be |
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missing. With weblizer xtended if may be similar, at least that's my guess. |
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The real problem is that we have an ebuild depending on feature patches. |
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Even if we had updated patches by now it were a question of time only |
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until the symptoms return. |
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Solution |
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1) Add two new packages to the tree: |
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- app-admin/geolizer (/usr/bin/geolizer) |
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- app-admin/webalizer-xtended (/usr/bin/webalizer-xtended) |
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2) Bump webalizer to 2.21 while |
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- no longer applying either feature patch |
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- removing use flag "xtended" |
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- keeping now hollow use flag "geoip" to reduce breakage |
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3) Close related bug 231859 |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231859 |
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I volunteer to do that. |
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Any objections or suggestions? |
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Side note |
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If anyone feels like playing around with merging changes from webalizer |
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into geolizer (and maybe geolizer-based webalizer xtended) he is welcome |
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to do that on top a dedicated Git repository for it: |
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http://git.goodpoint.de/?p=webalizer.git;a=summary |
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Contact me if that sounds like a job for you. Geolizer upstream is more |
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likely to migrate anytime soon, so checking back with Stanislaw Pusep |
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again before would be good. |
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Sebastian |
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