Quoting Colin Alston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Plenty of things have yet to go past 0.x and are many many years old.
So? > Considering Clam is in really abundant use I think version numbers are > little excuse, so it would be nice if sysadmins didn't get kicked in the > groin every time a release happens and they forget (or simply don't have > time) to read the changelog. Since cigarettes are really abundant, it would be nice if they didn't cause cancer. Since alcohol is so abundant, it would be nice if it didn't cause auto accidents. Since air is so abundant, it would be nice if it wasn't so polluted... Since police are so abundant, it would be nice if there wasn't any crime... So what if it is abundant? It is up to the software's author(s) to determine when software is stable and ready for a stable, supported release. Once that is done, backwards compatability becomes a real issue. But until then, user beware! > What really made me post this is the fact that it has happened several > times this year now. I can remember at least 3 major config file changes > which happened without warning and were horribly ungraceful. Without warning? Hmm... I seem to remember postings to the mailing list about them. And notes about them in the docs... > This is made worse by the 'stable' version in Debian Etch committing > suicide the instant it grabs the new definitions from FreshClam, forcing > us to use the volatile releases. This is a Debian issue. Since there is no stable release of clamav, there should be no such claim from Debian. > This is really the root of the problem, > since a blind 'aptitude update; aptitude upgrade' then causes very big > problems. Yes, for example, it can crash your mysql database when a new update comes out. And that (mysql) _IS_ supposed to be stable software! It might also crash lots of other things too... The point is, follow standard best practices, which say clearly that you don't do "blind" automatic updates on critical/important servers. > Clearly this hasn't been brought up much before though, so I'll be > forgiving on that basis. Or It has been beat to death before, and I'm sure it will be again. -- Eric Rostetter The Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin Go Longhorns! _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
