clamav (again)

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Tue Feb 15 13:23:15 UTC 2011


On 02/15/2011 12:18 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Last week at the epel meeting we talked about clamav and getting it
> updated and maintained better. One of the issues that came up is that
> folks would prefer a more understandable spec. That would help maintain
> and keep it updated better.
>
> Toward that end I have:
>
> http://www.scrye.com/~kevin/fedora/clamav/
>
> This is a package based on Dag's package from a while back and updated
> for Fedora guidelines, etc.
>
> In some simple testing on epel5 and epel6 it works pretty well. It
> upgrades the existing packages ok, with one exception: You need to
> 'mv /etc/freshclam.conf.rpmnew /etc/freshclam.conf' in order to get
> freshclam happy. I'm not sure of a way around this, but if anyone has
> one, I'd love to hear it.
>
> I mailed the EPEL maintainers of clamav last week and got one reply
> saying the spec seemed fine, but nothing back from the other
> co-maintainers. I'd like to set a time (say a week from now?) where we
> just commit this new spec and push out updates for testing.
>
> Thoughts?
Excellent !


>   Comments?

Is there still a reason to preserve all those Obsoletes: ? Fedora Extras 
died 5 years ago and no one sane still uses a clamav version packaged at 
the time.






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