Re: clamav for epel looking for reviewer

["Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge gmail com>]

On Dec 6, 2007 10:26 AM, Steven Pritchard <steve silug org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:39:51PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > There isn't any guideline either way. I usually prefer to use patches
> > myself, but this spec is based on one from Dag, and he used the perl
> > substitutions in there, so I left it in order to keep close to his spec.
>
> So EPEL clamav is going to look like Dag's, not like the "regular"
> Fedora clamav?
>

Yes.. this was discussed several times in the past. Part of it was
that a lot of enterprise people use dag's as it was there first and it
works  with what they had.. second it was a peace offering in some
ways to try and say 'look' we are looking to work with others by using
what is 'best' for enterprise environments. Third.. this started at a
time when enrico was not going to push past 0.87 for some technical
reasons and DAG had 0.91 or so that people were needing for audits and
such.


> I'm not really a fan of the Fedora clamav packages, but I do have to
> live with them (for amavisd-new).  How much pain is this fork going to
> cause me?
>
> Honestly, I think I'd rather volunteer to maintain Enrico's clamav spec
> in EPEL than even think about maintaining forked amavisd-new specs.
>

I would prefer to see how much work it was. I

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