On 1/17/2020 8:47 PM, J.R. via clamav-users wrote:
>> I have always preferred to build ClamAV and SpamAssassin from source so I 
>> don't have
>> to wait on the packages.  I just got a bit behind on ClamAV this time 
>> because I had
>> to wait for avfilter to be updated to work with ClamAV 102.
> If you are going to roll your own, you really should download the
> latest src.rpm for whatever package it is you want to update, and
> re-work the .spec as necessary for the new version and compile your
> own RPMs. It makes upgrading much cleaner & safer, you have
> dependencies handled, and you keep the overall integrity of your
> system.

I build rpms for a couple of other packages.  I've never done it for ClamAV 
since it
doesn't ship with a spec file I can use.  Honestly, I can generally just 
download the
source, configure, make, test, install, and done.  This is the first time I've 
had an
issue updating Clam in years.

-- 
Bowie


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