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

["Zeeshan Ali via RT" <support gnome org>]

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.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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