On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:07:06PM +0700, Fajar Nugraha wrote: > How about incremental updates? Can it possibly make way to > next freshclam versions too?
Too true. Some commercial AVs separate "patterns" into a library (large) plus incremental files (small). Typically the next "library" release contains the previous incremental patterns, and the actual incremental files are deleted - stopping crustiness from developing... daily.cvd is 160K at the moment, and will be totally re-downloaded the next time it's updated. However, this fiddling around trying to remember which old one-off pattern files can now be deleted/ignored does add complexity - something "daily.cvd" doesn't have to worry about... I suspect the digital signing of those files might be screwing up alternative options on this? After all, you don't want to be checking sigs on 12 files before actually being able to start doing AV! Perhaps a different way could be brought into play... Can the digital sig be separated from the daily file, and have the current CVD file changed into a better format that rsync could do a good job of incrementing/appended it? That way an update would in effect be appending some lines to the "daily.RAW" file, plus downloading the new (tiny) digital signature of that file? Just a thought - Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
