Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-13 Thread Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users
> On Aug 13, 2019, at 7:46 AM, Tuomo Soini wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:37:47 + > Graeme Fowler via clamav-users > wrote: > >> On 12/08/2019, 16:21, "Nick Howitt" > > wrote: >>> >>> Then you can't start clamd on instal

Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-13 Thread Tuomo Soini
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 15:37:47 + Graeme Fowler via clamav-users wrote: > On 12/08/2019, 16:21, "Nick Howitt" wrote: > > > > Then you can't start clamd on installation? > > Run a postinstall scriptlet that calls freshclam as part of the > package installer, perhaps? Exactly. That's how

Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-12 Thread Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users
Probably need to kick off freshclam as part of the install. Sent from my  iPhone > On Aug 12, 2019, at 17:00, Scott Kitterman via clamav-users > wrote: > > On Monday, August 12, 2019 4:49:01 PM EDT Nick Howitt wrote: >> On 12/08/2019 19:16, J.R. via clamav-users wrote: I would suggest

Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-12 Thread Scott Kitterman via clamav-users
On Monday, August 12, 2019 4:49:01 PM EDT Nick Howitt wrote: > On 12/08/2019 19:16, J.R. via clamav-users wrote: > >> I would suggest not packaging them at all, and they > >> should be downloaded from the update servers the > >> first time the update is ran. > > > > Ideally yes, I would agree. > >

Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-12 Thread Nick Howitt
On 12/08/2019 19:16, J.R. via clamav-users wrote: I would suggest not packaging them at all, and they should be downloaded from the update servers the first time the update is ran. Ideally yes, I would agree. However then you run into the edge-case of what if the machine has no (or very limi

Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-12 Thread J.R. via clamav-users
> I would suggest not packaging them at all, and they > should be downloaded from the update servers the > first time the update is ran. Ideally yes, I would agree. However then you run into the edge-case of what if the machine has no (or very limited) internet access? I *think* it's a requiremen

Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-12 Thread Graeme Fowler via clamav-users
On 12/08/2019, 16:21, "Nick Howitt" wrote: > > Then you can't start clamd on installation? Run a postinstall scriptlet that calls freshclam as part of the package installer, perhaps? Graeme ___ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clama

Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-12 Thread Nick Howitt
Then you can't start clamd on installation? On 12/08/2019 15:06, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users wrote: I would suggest not packaging them at all, and they should be downloaded from the update servers the first time the update is ran. On Aug 12, 2019, at 9:47 AM, Nick Howitt wrote: On

Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-12 Thread Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users
I would suggest not packaging them at all, and they should be downloaded from the update servers the first time the update is ran. > On Aug 12, 2019, at 9:47 AM, Nick Howitt wrote: > > On 12/08/2019 13:25, J.R. via clamav-users wrote: >> main.cvd rarely changes (last update was Jan 2018), it is

Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-12 Thread Nick Howitt
On 12/08/2019 13:25, J.R. via clamav-users wrote: main.cvd rarely changes (last update was Jan 2018), it is only when the daily gets so large they push a bunch of signatures over. Bytecode also does not get updated very often. Really the only things are daily & safebrowsing (if enabled) that chan

Re: [clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-12 Thread J.R. via clamav-users
main.cvd rarely changes (last update was Jan 2018), it is only when the daily gets so large they push a bunch of signatures over. Bytecode also does not get updated very often. Really the only things are daily & safebrowsing (if enabled) that change regularly. Since the are 'signed' files, there's

[clamav-users] Packaging ClamAV

2019-08-12 Thread Nick Howitt
Hi, I am currently trying to help with packaging ClamAV for ClearOS, based on the EPEL and FC repos. One thing I have noticed is that they pre-package virus signatures which both makes the package large and the signatures are necessarily out of date as soon as they are packaged. As clamd won'