Packaging GeoIP

geoip-package.sh

#!/bin/bash 

#### Edit the paths to suit your environment.

mkdir /tmp/geoip
cd /tmp/geoip/
rm -f *.dat
wget -N -q http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
gzip -d - < GeoIP.dat.gz > GeoIP.dat


wget -N -q http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gzip -d - < GeoLiteCity.dat.gz > GeoLiteCity.dat

DATE=`date +%Y%M%d-%H%M`
MAINTAINER="Mike Preston <mike.preston@synety.com>"

# we probably should set the homepage,description and other info for production :)
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/fpm-0.4.20/bin/fpm -s dir -t deb -n geoip-data -v ${DATE} -m "${MAINTAINER}" --prefix /usr/share/GeoIP/ *.dat

gistfile1.txt

root@teamplayr:www$ dpkg --info /opt/geoip/geoip-data_20122507-2025_amd64.deb
 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 13509556 bytes: control archive= 394 bytes.
       0 bytes,     0 lines      conffiles
     315 bytes,    12 lines      control
 Package: geoip-data
 Version: 20122507-2025
 License: unknown
 Vendor: root@teamplayr.technomonk.net
 Architecture: amd64
 Maintainer: Mike Preston <mike.preston@synety.com>
 Installed-Size: 20109
 #Pre-Depends:
 Section: default
 Priority: extra
 Homepage: http://example.com/no-uri-given
 Description: no description given
root@teamplayr:www$ dpkg --contents /opt/geoip/geoip-data_20122507-2025_amd64.deb
drwx------ root/root         0 2012-10-07 20:25 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-10-07 20:25 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-10-07 20:25 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-10-07 20:25 ./usr/share/GeoIP/
-rw-r--r-- root/root   1354216 2012-10-07 20:25 ./usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat
-rw-r--r-- root/root  19237666 2012-10-07 20:25 ./usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat