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

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Federico Simoncelli wrote:

> 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.

You are completely correct in analysis and solution. Thanks for making it 
simple to agree :-)

And thanks for the feedback. It will be different the next clamav release 
as I do not see the need to create new patches for only this change. Let 
me know if you have a different opinion on this.

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