PECL GeoIP on Gentoo

Even if the GeoIP bindings for PHP have been available for more than a year on PECL, I have never took the time to write an ebuild for it on Gentoo.

Until now, I was using the PEAR installer, which is great for installing PECL packages. The only downside is that those packages won't be seen when doing a world upgrade with Gentoo. You then have two choices:

  1. Do an emerge world followed by a pecl upgrade-all
  2. Install PECL packages via Portage

Since I'm lazy, I like the fact to upgrade everything at one place.

The hard part now is to write the ebuild, which is really simple considering the fact that it is a PECL package and that eclass are available.

One thing to another, this ebuild is now part of the testing overlay for Gentoo. If no bugs are found, it should be part of the normal tree shortly.

This entry was posted by Olivier Hill on Monday, August 20. 2007 at 10:06. and is filed under Internet. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog.

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  1. Marcelo Araujo says:
    #1 2007-11-03 14:11 (Reply)

    Hello Olivier,

    Is there a TODO list for geoip extension? If yes, I would like to take a look at...

    Regards,

    Marcelo

  1. Olivier says:
    #1.1 2007-11-13 08:12 (Reply)

    Not that I know of, it would be on CVS with the extension.

    Do you have anything in mind? The current bindings represent most of the API from the libgeoip, meaning that adding features would need to go upstream.


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