Re: [Security-Discuss] clamav, again!

Vincent Danen <vdanen-7Aj/b8uzpy6AmYF/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.security.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 27, 2005, at 3:26, Simon Oosthoek wrote:

>> It appears the clamav folks has started to force people to update 
>> their clamav
>> installations now. So, I guess we need to ship another clamav update.
>>
>>
>> # freshclam
>> ClamAV update process started at Thu Jan 27 11:01:26 2005
>> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update 
>> immediately!
>> WARNING: Local version: 0.80 Recommended version: 0.81
>> ERROR: Can't get information about database.clamav.net host.
>> ERROR: Connection with ??? failed.
>>
>> I guess the ERROR is a penalty for using 0.80! Specifying for example
>> "db.europe.clamav.net" instead of "database.clamav.net" for the
>> "DatabaseMirror" in /etc/freshclam.conf makes it work again. Is this
>> something that happens to you too?
>>
>>
>> Here's my "update candidate" based on the latest 10.1 update src.rpm 
>> with
>> merged fixes from cooker (see the changelog):
>>
>> http://nux.se/10.1/SRPMS/clamav-0.81-0.update_candidate.1mdk.src.rpm
>>
>> Here's x86_64 binaries:
>>
>> http://nux.se/10.1/x86_64/
>>
>> No i586 binaries yet, sorry.
>>
>
> If it's not too much trouble, I'd like some 10.0 updates for clamav as 
> well.

Sorry, but you're unlikely to get it.  clamav was in contribs for 10.0 
and it's well established policy that we don't create update packages 
for contribs.

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