Hi Bill,
On 17/09/2007, Bill Randle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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*). OK Bill, seems like to only way to go at the moment. Thanks. -- Kind Regards, Graeme. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
