Stephen Gran wrote:
> 1) Release a new version that pulls updates from a new hostname.
You mean, deploy a parallel infrastructure of vhosting, monitoring,
pushing updates, etc? When most of the mirrors are on third party
servers not under the control of the clamav team? Do you really think
that's trivial, or were you just making up a solution without knowing
anything about the problem?
There is no parallel infrastructure - though I accept the point about
mirrors not being under the ClamAv teams control. Presumably they
aren't going to claim they have no knowledge of who runs mirrors ?
How about this for yet another option that could have been done at
the 0.95 release :
Just check for slightly different file names on the same servers.
Before you shout me down about maintaining two sets of sigs etc, I do
not mean that - you just hard link another file name to the original.
IFF (and yes, I don't know how the mirrors are updating) the mirrors
use something like rsync which will deal with hardlinked files, then
there's no extra bandwidth for updating the mirrors.
When you're ready to cut 0.94 and earlier loose, just stop providing
the files it looks for.
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