[suggest] Clamav should not require a specific clamav-db version

Federico Simoncelli federico.simoncelli at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 10:08:20 CET 2008


I'm using the clamav/clamd packages and I think clamav shouldn't
strictly depend on the same clamav-db version.

My idea is that clamav should only require clamav-db with no explicit version.
During the install the newest clamav-db will be downloaded and during
updates this will prevent yum from update the package which, in the
worst case, could even replace a newer virus db fetched by freshclam.

Yum is not the right tool to update the virus database, freshclam
should be used instead.

For reference:

http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=488
http://www.contribs.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2583

My suggestion is to modify the spec file:

-Requires: clamav-db = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires: clamav-db

Thank you for your attention.

-- 
Federico.


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