Dear Group,
I think i will make a script to automate the process myself..
I really think the clamav developers have already done a great work providing
us clamav sources,
so why bothering them for creating a new system for upgrading the clamav itself
i think we can still
compile from sources: i will see how to manage and I'll post in the list how
solved this problem, if
someone needs it.....
Cheers,
Lorenzo
Lorenzo Allori
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:33:11 -0500
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Tool to upgrade
>
> On Mar 02, 2005, at 05:02, Steffen Heil wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> >> I've just rebuilt ClamAV from source on an FC1 and a Mac OSX
> >> server after making minor source code edits, the time
> >> involved on both machines was less than 15 minutes, this also
> >> included a complete rebuild of Apache and PHP on the Mac (I
> >> have fast machines) so using old and outdated software
> >> because your waiting on an updated RPM doesn't make any logical sense.
> >
> > You miss the point.
> > This is not about having less work to update, this is about having NO
> > work
> > to update.
> >
> > An example:
> > We so have some Windows servers running since years which use McAfee
> > VirusScan Enterprise 7.0.
> > It loads DAT-File (definitions) a few times a day (as freshclam does).
> > But it also loads Engine-Updates every few months.
> > Some of these servers have not been touched for more than a year. It
> > simply
> > works.
>
> Your talking about windows machines and support features, while mcafee
> does offer a mac package, it does utilize the same dat files I believe
> but, the programmers were lazy and did not build the same engine update
> support so you have to manually download and install engine updates and
> pushing better support features for the windows platform is only
> beneficial to you and others running windows.
>
> > This is what should be archieved, IMHO.
> >
> > Exspecially on virus scanner updates, I would think it is very
> > important to
> > have that, because most administrators of smaller systems will NOT
> > monitor
> > which versions become available and will immediately update everything,
> > exspecially when compiling is involved. Most admins of small companies
> > need
> > to do this additionally to their primary job and only work on it, if
> > required. For most of them "required" is just then, when a new virus
> > already
> > made it into their system.
> >
> > I know, it would be better to have full time admins which keep track
> > and
> > update immediately, but this is life.
> >
> > McAfee DOES a great job on this - even though I assume this is way
> > easier on
> > windows. (Yes, I assume this IS an advantage of windows.)
> > Anyway, there must be a way to give this advantage to linux users. Not
> > using
> > libraries but statically linking all required dependencies would put
> > more
> > memory footprint to the system, but would make engine update schemes
> > possible.
>
> This might become possible utilizing a fink type of foot-print to
> handle downloading of updated source files and building on the fly or
> modifying freshclam to handle this, it then creates more burden on the
> providers to program something that is outside the scope of their
> package based on the lazyness of the end user and this doesn't seem
> fair to to them when this is all provided for free.
>
> > Think about it.
>
> This doesn't require a lot of thought, it does make logical sense
> however, supporting multiple platforms means the offering source and
> building could only be circumvented by the authors providing unilateral
> and equilateral support for platforms/OS's and environments that
> becomes non-feasible without financial support and are forced to charge
> for their product to offset these expenditures.
>
> > Regards,
> > Steffen
>
> -- Dale
>
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