Re: first attempt to use GeoIP information in Anaconda

[David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>]

On 10/04/2011 09:46 AM, Vratislav Podzimek wrote:
> This is a set of patches that makes use of GeoIP based information in Anaconda. GeoIP-based info is used to
> guess the default value for language choosing dialog. While it's quite a big amount of code doing effectively
> nothing for the user (if they're lucky, they get their prefered language preset in the "Choose language"
> dialog) it shows what has to be done to use GeoIP.
>
> The first patch only removes unused variable which I came across while working on GeoIP integration.
>
> For some other info see:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/LocationQuestion
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2011-August/msg00035.html
>
> note: CCing Matt Domsch (developer of the Mirror Manager)

Thanks for taking a look at this feature.  I still need to go through 
the patches.

One thing I'd like to see us try to do is using GeoIP data to set 
self.default in the timezone_gui.py file.  This is something that Ubuntu 
does that I hear more about than anything else, and it seems somewhat 
easy to do.

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David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>
Supervisor, Installer Engineering Team
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