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

[Andrés G. Aragoneses <knocte gmail com>]

What's the URL of the Mozilla service? (Sorry for the dumb question, but I googled a bit, and it's still not clear.)

On 26 June 2014 01:36, Zeeshan Ali via RT <support gnome org> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Andrea Veri via RT <support gnome org> wrote:
> 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.

Oh sorry I didn't remember to update you about this. We don't need
this anymore as we are using Mozilla Location Service now. I've even
deleted the geop server code from geoclue.

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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