Repository on Ubuntu has different versions for X86 and ARM, with different library locations

[xgretsch]

I have just discovered that GeoIP was failing on my production server (which is x86), while working on my development system (which is a newish Mac, and therefore arm).

This is because the library locations are different: on the production server, it's in /usr/share (as described in the documentation), whereas on the dev system, it's /var/lib.

This seems to be associated with the versions being different. On the dev system, I'm getting v4.10.0-1. On the live system, it's v6-0.0-0.

I'm using the same Dockerfile commands for both:

# Start with a base Ubuntu image
FROM ubuntu:23.04

ARG xdebug

# Prevent any prompts during installation
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive

# Set up apt with any additional repositories we need
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y software-properties-common
RUN add-apt-repository ppa:maxmind/ppa
RUN apt-get update --fix-missing
RUN apt upgrade -y
RUN apt-get install -y geoipupdate

However, the Docker build commands are different (obviously)

For the live site:

docker buildx build --platform linux/x86_64 .

For the dev site:

docker build .

Can someone update the Github repository, please, so that we get the same version on both platforms?

[oschwald]

Our PPA currently doesn't provide ARM builds. We don't have immediate plans to add them, but we can look at how much work is involved next time we do a release.

Given that you are using Docker, is there are reason why you aren't using our official images? We do support ARM64 for those.

[oschwald]

Also, if you set the DatabaseDirectory, you should be able to avoid the underlying issue you are running into when switching between the Debian/Ubuntu packages and the PPA packages.

[xgretsch]

@oschwald The reason for not using official images is kind of annoying: I'm using a Google VM with their "container-oriented OS", which only allows me to use a single image. So I'm starting from Docker's "ubuntu:23.04" image and I don't have a way of combining it with a second image from elsewhere (e.g. yours). That's my understanding of the Google documentation, anyway - I'm happy for that to be corrected if it's wrong.

I'll have a look at setting the DatabaseDirectory in GeoIP.conf - that sounds like it might work. As of this morning, I'm now accounting for the variation in my build file, but your suggestion would be more stable.