[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: clamav-0.90.3-1.fc7

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jul 19 17:22:56 UTC 2007


Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> Enrico Scholz wrote:
>> Can't reach the maintainer, so pushing this myself, given it's a 
>> security related update.
> ...
>> clamav-milter-sysv-0.90.3-1.fc7.i386.rpm
> ...
>> clamav-server-sysv-0.90.3-1.fc7.i386.rpm
> 
> 
> Good time to ask what I wanted:
> 
> Are the "*-sysv" subpackages actually needed as SUB-packages? Why to not 
> just include init scripts into correspond "clamav-server", 
> "clamav-milter" etc. ? Are there any other precedents where init scripts 
> go to separate sub-package?

This is likely because the maintainer is using some other init system 
for his own use and prefers to keep the sysv init scripts separate so 
that he can uninstall them.

I don't think that the scripts should be separate as long as the default 
init system is sysv in Fedora.

Rahul




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