Issued:
2019-08-06
Updated:
2019-08-06

RHEA-2019:2222 - new package: geoipupdate

Synopsis

new package: geoipupdate

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

A new geoipupdate package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The geoipupdate package provides the geoipupdate binary from the legacy GeoIP package. This binary is capable of downloading both legacy Geolite databases and the new Geolite2 databases.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

All users who require geoipupdate are advised to install this new package.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian7ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)7s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • geoipupdate-debuginfo-2.5.0-1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • geoipupdate-debuginfo-2.5.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • geoipupdate-2.5.0-1.el7.src.rpm
  • geoipupdate-debuginfo-2.5.0-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • geoipupdate-2.5.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • geoipupdate-debuginfo-2.5.0-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • geoipupdate-2.5.0-1.el7.s390x.rpm
  • geoipupdate-2.5.0-1.el7.ppc64.rpm
  • geoipupdate-cron-2.5.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm
  • geoipupdate-2.5.0-1.el7.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

Additional information