On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:42 +1000, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> 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 :-(
> **
Seems like at a minimum, the dependencies in yum are severely broken.
I would manually download the clamav packages in F7 updates (currently
at 0.91.2-2.fc7) and install them by hand (rpm -Uhv clamav*).
-Bill
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