-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Krištof Petr wrote: > Hello all, > > there is new version of FC-4 packages. They are on testing > repository http://crash.fce.vutbr.cz/crash-hat/testing/4/clamav/ > because the one big change was did from previous build. > > New sub-package clamav-db was introduced. This package is not > needed to install, because main package clamav downloads actual > updated virus db from net after installation via freshclam program. > > > The primary target of this step is saving of bandwith and network > infrastructure. Size of virus db grows up rapidly and users with > freshclam updated systems dont need to install the same data once > again from clamav package. (Look at discussion a year back about on > list.) > > If nothing breaks really hard, I will move new build to standard > repository on Monday 12:00 GMT. > > Regs Petr > > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
Petr, Hi. The only problem I see with the change is that users who don't already have a database loaded on their system will need to download and install the db package first before installing the main clamav packages. Unless maybe you force the freshclam to download the updates before starting the other services... but, this also takes up bandwidth and resources. Maybe it would be better to look into compressing the databases somehow. Having a run-time decompresser to extract the information from the database as the application needed them. Just some random ideas, James Kosin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDb15HkNLDmnu1kSkRAxpqAJsEfMUcc/99jDlzhqOSIiaq8U+uJwCfQAJX UWOfrGKvy/6zkU7/nStFvVg= =g3cB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Scanned by ClamAV - http://www.clamav.net _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
