include much needed antivirus products in FC2

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
Tue Jan 6 15:28:16 UTC 2004


On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:48:08PM +0100, Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:06:47 -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> >
> >> [...] I think you can safely assume that the packages that are
> >> there are good.
> >
> > "Good" is rather vague. An approved and published package which works for
> > the packager and at least one reviewer may have issues for someone who
> > installs a package and expects a completely preconfigured ready-to-run
> > piece of software which doesn't need any manual configuration steps.
> 
> I have to agree completely with Steven on this one...
> 
> Now that I have heard som much good about the quality about the
> packages at fedora.us, i decided to try to yum the packages for
> clamav onto my test system... Let me just say that those packages
> are certainly not of a quality that can even begin to compare
> against what we're used to from the core packages... A core package
> can safely be assumed to install cleanly. It will have it's init
> scripts added to the chkconfig setup, provide a decent default
> configuration file that can be modified slightly to fit the users
> needs and if the package includes a daemon it can then be started
> with a "service foo_service start" command.
> 
> Neither is the case with the clamav packages from fedora.us. First
> of all a number of manual customizations has to be made in order to
> start the daemon... including installing the default conf file,
> adding init scripts and a lot of other things...
> 
> This is not how things should work, and that was the feeling I had
> of the non-core distros, when I suggested to include an antivirus
> package in the core distribution.

Have you tried the clamav packages from newprms?

     http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/redhat/en/i386/fc1/RPMS.newrpms/

While everybody talks of newrpms as if it were a recreational repo it
has quite a lot of non-game pearls, too.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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