BUG: clamav packages badly broken

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Dec 29, 2007 6:16 AM, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:

>
> Then be the volunteer to provide a package that includes the configuration
> files for such a "most basic" clamav daemon. AIUI, the Fedora clamav
> packager doesn't want to provide such defaults because he thinks it would
> be wrong to do that. The Fedora Package Collection is not closed, however,
> it is open to the community.
>

I think the issue is that in the past, Enricho has come across as his
way or someone maintains all of his packages. I am not sure if that
was his intent, but the feeling came across. Adding in a package for
basic configurations has been closed as a wontfix in the past.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=161953

> > > They do work, albeit differently than Dag's.
> >
> > Not the packages I installed today, they don't. Proof: install them,
> > then run "service clamav-wrapper start" (or whatever is the name of that
> > broken symlink). Anything happened at all?
>
> You are not supposed to run that. Read the documentation first.
>

Why does every  time this package come up we end up with the same
comments... there seem to have been several more in the old
bugzilla.us one that I cant get to.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=157528

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=173221

It is a different packaging philosophy that Enricho has.. but it does
seem to be different than most packages that Fedora ships. I am having
a hard time coming up with a mainstream package that does it that
way.. which I think is what causes the large amount of cognitive
dissonance, and harsh opinions when they come up.


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