should clamav-data package supersede clamav-db ?

Denis Leroy denis at poolshark.org
Tue Apr 10 13:38:52 UTC 2007


Matthias Saou wrote:
> Jima wrote :
> 
>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, David Timms wrote:
>>> Perhaps changing the clamav-data package to obsolete clamav-db would be the 
>>> nicest way to solve this. And if forge/fresh continue to package, it might be 
>>> worth suggesting they do similar for their package ?
>>   -1, Flamebait ;-)
> 
> Why? First of all, the package doesn't come from freshrpms, but
> rpmforge, as I've never packaged it on freshrpms ;-)
> Second, you should contact Dries and suggest :
> 1) To remove the rpmforge clamav packages for the Fedora releases which
> have them in Extras
> 2) To consider using the clamav-db name instead of clamav-data
> 
> Then also poke the Extras clamav maintainer to have the proper
> "Obsoletes: clamav-db <= last-known-V-R" added to the clamav-data
> package.

I read several complaints on fedora-list about the way clamav is 
packaged in Extras, I think that's why a lot of people use the RPMs from 
other repos...




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