On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Bill Landry wrote:
This seems rather odd, since I updated to 0.86 when it was announced two days
ago, but with the latest update I am now seeing this:
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.86 Recommended version: 0.85.1
Any ideas what's going on?
Don't worry about it... apparently the human updating the DNS record
just goofed, but it looks like it's already been fixed.
It might be worthwhile to add a bit more intelligence to the way update
warnings are given. I think I mentioned this a month or two ago, but
I'll try again:
Right now, the humans that control the DNS can set a recommended
version, and turn warnings on or off. So what they would normally do is
update the version to 0.86, but leave warnings off for a few days, to
give people a chance to upgrade without their logs yelling at them.
Then they enable the warnings. (In this case it appears they enabled
warnings but forgot to update the dns record to 0.86, so it warned
people to move to 0.85.1.)
The problem with that, is if someone is running 0.85, they should
continue to get warned to upgrade, even if people running 0.85.1 should
not. My recommendation would be to set it to have a "latest version"
field and a "minimum version" field. I haven't taken the time to think
through how to implement that in a backwards-compatible way, though. I
suspect it can just be added on to the end of the current series of
fields.
Damian Menscher
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