[gnome.org #14111] Setup geoip web service for geoclue

["Andrea Veri via RT" <support gnome org>]

On Wed Jan 29 20:27:57 2014, averi wrote:
> On Thu Jan 23 18:42:46 2014, averi wrote:
> > On Thu Jan 23 15:32:59 2014, knocte gmail com wrote:
> > > (Re-filing from old ticket
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706886)
> > >
> > > Fedora is already providing this service, but it makes more sense
> > > to
> > > provide it from gnome (Zeeshan and Bastien concur with this PoV).
> > >
> > > Please arrange Ubuntu VM, or run the service from within jhbuild,
> > > as
> > > geoclue depends on recent versions of glib, apparently, which the
> > > RetHat
> > > gnome servers can't provide.
> > >
> > > Target DNS name: geolocation.gnome.org
> >
> > We do have the capability to run that on one of our Ubuntu machines.
> > Can you please point me to the documentation to properly set up the
> > service?
> >
> > The package we should use is probably geoclue-ubuntu-geoip [1], do we
> > need anything else?
>
> I did request a Fedora 20 VM at OSUOSL and will move forward as soon
> as that will be approved and up.
>
> Currently neither Debian nor Ubuntu are shipping the server-side bits
> of geoclue and RHEL / EPEL 6 do have an older libglib than the one we
> need to have the package built and installed on our RHEL 6 machines.
>
> That said Fedora 20 provides the package we need [1], thus the
> decision to request a VM with that distribution.
>
> I'll keep the ticket updated as things move forward.
>
> [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/geoclue2

Seems OSUOSL finally provided us with a VM to set geolocation.gnome.org up. I'll work on setting up the 
service as soon as possible within the next two weeks.

Can you please confirm the correct package I should use is geoclue2 from the F20 repositories? do you have 
some documentation to set the service up and running?

thanks!

-- 
Andrea,
GNOME Sysadmin
GNOME Accounts Team
GNOME Membership & Elections Committee Chairman


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