Clamav, Amavisd-new, Pyzor, DCC and Dansguardian

Oliver Falk oliver at linux-kernel.at
Mon Jul 18 08:29:08 UTC 2005


On 07/18/2005 10:25 AM, Warren Togami wrote:
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>
>> clamav and pyzor (and razor, spamassassin) are already packaged.
>>
>> amavisd-new isn't but all deps should already be taken care of. The
>> difficult part is to automate cleanly clamav and MTA integration.
>>
>> Last time I checked DCC was not OSS and/or a bastard to package.
>>
>> Never looked at Dansguardian
>>
> 
> http://togami.com/~warren/fedora/DansGuardian-2.7.1-0.fdr.1.src.rpm
> I looked at DansGuardian a very long time ago and began cleaning up this 
> package, but then I gave up on it after I realized that it is absolutely 
> horrible software from both a technical and societal point of view.  I 
> think squidguard is much better designed software, but the source of 
> your blacklist is a separate problem.

And squidguard is on my tasklist to be include in FE:
http://filelister.linux-kernel.at/downloads/packages/lkernAT/SRPMS/squidGuard-1.2.0-7.src.rpm

:-)

> DCC is indeed not OSS and very much bastard to package... unless we 
> agree to allow fakeroot in Fedora.  Apparently Debian sometimes uses 
> fakeroot.  I'm not sure fakeroot would be something we want to encourage 
>  here though.  It seems to encourage laziness.

See my other mail...

Best,
  Oliver




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