Updating clamav

Stephen J. Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Wed Feb 9 00:41:37 UTC 2005


On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:47:23 +0100, Enrico Scholz
<enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> smooge at gmail.com ("Stephen J. Smoogen") writes:
> 
> >> >
> >> > > Extra currently has 0.71 clamav, and the stable clamav is 0.81 with
> >> > > security fixes. With that in mind.. what can I do to get an updated
> >> > > spec file/srpm/ for the build system?
> >> >
> >> > I really don't know if I shall give it free for publishing. There are
> >> > lots of non-trivial changes between 0.71 and 0.81 which should pass QA
> >> > first. But as you said... 0.71 has security issues and does not accept
> >> > new databases.
> >> >
> >
> > Quick QA remarks:
> >
> > 1) .fdr. is no longer wanted in SPEC files.
> 
> ignore this; the package is for fedora.us. The CVS version should not
> have this tag.
> 
> 
> > 2) zlib update for fedora core 2 has been released. Comment about
> > --disable-zlib can be removed from several areas it is posted.
> 
> This is required for FC3 as it ships zlib-2.2.1. But the check requires
> >=2.2.2 or <2.
> 

Hmmm ok. The one thing though is that the comments should be removed
as they are a bit snarky and non-professional.. even if true about
updates being needed.


-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator




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