Hello Bill, On 17/09/2007, Bill Randle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 20:42 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > > --As of September 17, 2007 10:22:35 AM +1000, Graeme Nichols is alleged > to > > have said: > > > > > 1. The package I used to upgrade clamav was built by Redhat/Fedora for > F7 > > > so surely should be able to be trusted for use on a Fedora 7 system. > Sure, > > > packages from other package builders could have been built on any > distro > > > or release and *could* introduce problems. > > > 2. Why has there been a change in the packaging of clamav? Freshclam > is > > > essential to the operation of clamav and *should* be in the same > package > > > as clamav. > > > > As for the second: That is up to the package maintainer, who may or may > not > > be on this list. The clamav team _does_ include freshclam with clamav, > in > > their source tarballs. If it is not included in this package, it is > > because the creator of this package has intentionally removed it. > > With F7, the maintainers seem to have split clamav into even more > packages. The base clamav package contains clamscan, clamdscan, sigtool > and some other stuff. Clamd is in the clamav-server package and > freshclam is in the clamav-update package. This was gleaned from > inspection of the clamav packages in F7 updates dated 06-Sep-2007.
There seems to me to be quite a mess with clamav and F7. My previous install (an update of previous installs) was clamav-0.90.2-27.fc6.at.i386.rpm and it contained the whole kaboodle. After upgrading to F7 clamav no longer worked. I then did a 'yum update clamav' which resulted in the half baked install of clamav-0.90.3-1.fc7. Some dependencies were installed but none associated with clamav directly or clamav-update or clamav-server or any other clamav related package. The clamav program is totally useless without the ability to update the virus sig. file. Seems like a cock-up to me :-( ** > I'm not sure why they did this, but I guess it helps reduce the number > of programs required for a minimal install. Still, to update a server > running clamd, you would need to update clamav, clamav-data or > clamav-data-empty, clamav-filesystem, clamav-lib, clamav-server, and > clamav-update. Of course, if you're using the milter, then you also > need clamav-milter. No. I cannot understand it either. Thanks for the info Bill. -- Kind Regards, Graeme. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
