On Monday 19 August 2013 10:47:27 Gene Heskett did opine: > On Sunday 18 August 2013 20:09:46 Benny Pedersen did opine: > > Gene Heskett skrev den 2013-08-18 22:31: > > > In what context, Benny? > > > > dont know really, but i think its possible > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto > > That is a pretty complex read. Printed for study. Thanks. > Studied, saw the backports possibility but when I checked, my sources.list had already been modified for that.
So I downloaded the 97.8 tarball and tried to get it to run with prefix=$HOME, building it as gene. Most of the make check passed, but when installed, I would have had to change the perms to me of all the log and database files. Didn't, from a security viewpoint, seem like the thing to do. More likely resembled that famous Margolin target pistol. :( So I copied the tarball to usr/src & unpacked it again, but first had synaptic nuke completely, all the installed 97.7 stuff, including configs. cd into 97.8 src tree and issue a "./configure --prefix=/usr" Bombed out, total showstopper, very quickly: "checking for clamav in /etc/passwd... no configure: error: User clamav (and/or group clamav) doesn't exist. Please read the documentation !" Says see the documentation without specifying which of the several manpage makings are in the doc directory. Except for some lengthy .pdf's no docs have been built, and the old manpages, probably wrong by now, have all been excised. So what would be the usual procedure to re-establish the user/group entries short of re-installing the now broken packages and then just letting the "make install" step overwrite the now broken but installed bits & pieces? This doesn't seem like a very good way to run a train to me. But obviously I'm not privy to all the secrets either. Whats next? > > setup to use clamav from newer lts version of ubuntu, thats imho what > > pinning does >From the looks of my /etc/sources.list, this had already been done, perhaps a year or so ago, whenever 97.5 something was obsoleted. In any event, all thats available in backports is 97.7. So it would appear that this upgrade has killed it for everybody running Lucid. And if I can't upgrade just yet, I and about 5k linuxcnc users are screwed. > > _______________________________________________ > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit > > http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > > Cheers, Gene Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> "If you ever want to get anywhere in politics, my boy, you're going to have to get a toehold in the public eye." A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
