On 02/19/2011 03:53 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
I did this experiment on my Fedora 14 workstation, but, it should demonstrate the issue.On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:36:13 -0500 Fred Wittekind <rom twister dyndns org> wrote:I know this is not from your spec file, but, it shows what I was writing about # rpm -q -l -p clamav-data-0.96.5-1301el5.x86_64.rpm /var/lib/clamav/daily.cvd /var/lib/clamav/main.cvd # ls -l /var/lib/clamav/ total 67440 -rw-r--r-- 1 clamupdate clamupdate 459264 Feb 15 11:24 bytecode.cld -rw-r--r-- 1 clamupdate clamupdate 3071488 Feb 18 10:36 daily.cld -rw-r--r-- 1 clamupdate clamupdate 65422336 Nov 14 11:24 main.cld -rw------- 1 clamupdate clamupdate 884 Feb 18 10:36 mirrors.dat The file extensions are different, why this is, I do not know.Well, thats normal I think... some of the files are diffs of others, so it only has to update a base file with daily updates. So there's a base file that has the signatures from the time the version was released, and then diff/update files that apply to that to create the current up to date signatures.IMHO it's nice to have the option of not having RPM mess with the database, the "-empty" package is a way to do that. If you are updating clamav, then chances are the db on disk is newer than the one in the updated RPM that is being installed. The database included with the RPM is also most likely out-of-date by the time the RPM is released, so, personally, I see more value in a database installed via freshclam, than one installed via the package.Sure, but what does it hurt? It's not that big, IMHO, so you can just install the db as shipped and then update it. You will then get to use the base db files and just need to download the diffs. # yum --disablerepo=updates install clamav clamav-data clamav-update clamav-data-empty installs by default, so had to specify to load the one with the database files, I specified to disable the updates repo to intentionally install a older version. # ls /var/lib/clamav/ daily.cvd main.cvd # vi /etc/freshclam.conf (comment out the Example line) # freshclam # ls /var/lib/clamav/ bytecode.cvd daily.cvd main.cld mirrors.dat # yum update clamav # ls /var/lib/clamav/ bytecode.cvd daily.cvd daily.cvd.rpmsave main.cld main.cvd mirrors.dat # clamscan LibClamAV Warning: ************************************************** LibClamAV Warning: *** The virus database is older than 7 days! *** LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible. *** LibClamAV Warning: ************************************************** LibClamAV Warning: Detected duplicate databases /var/lib/clamav/main.cvd and /var/lib/clamav/main.cld, please manually remove one of them The update installed a older database than what was already on disk, and also left clamav in a condition that has to be manually corrected. The -empty package doesn't have this issue. kevin_______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list epel-devel-list redhat com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list |