[users] Failing in updating to clamav and clamav-db

[Michael Mansour]

Hi Dag,

> Michael Mansour wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to update to the latest clamav and clamav-db and keep  
> > getting the
> > following dependency problem:
> >
> > # yum --enablerepo=dag -y update clamav clamav-db
> > Loading "kernel-module" plugin
> > Setting up Update Process
> > Setting up repositories
> > dag                       100% |=========================|  951 B     
> > 00:00
> > sl-errata                 100% |=========================|  951 B     
> > 00:00
> > sl-base                   100% |=========================|  951 B     
> > 00:00
> > Reading repository metadata in from local files
> > primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 2.7 MB     
> > 00:00
> > dag       : ##################################################  
> > 8097/8097
> > Added 8097 new packages, deleted 0 old in 114.50 seconds
> > primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 227 kB     
> > 00:00
> > sl-errata : ################################################## 641/641
> > Added 641 new packages, deleted 0 old in 9.43 seconds
> > primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 665 kB     
> > 00:00
> > sl-base   : ##################################################  
> > 1750/1750
> > Added 1750 new packages, deleted 0 old in 24.39 seconds
> > Resolving Dependencies
> > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> > ---> Downloading header for clamav-db to pack into transaction set.
> > clamav-db-0.92-1.el4.rf.i 100% |=========================| 3.3 kB     
> > 00:00
> > ---> Package clamav-db.i386 0:0.92-1.el4.rf set to be updated
> > ---> Downloading header for clamav to pack into transaction set.
> > clamav-0.92-1.el4.rf.i386 100% |=========================| 8.0 kB     
> > 00:00
> > ---> Package clamav.i386 0:0.92-1.el4.rf set to be updated
> > --> Running transaction check
> > --> Processing Dependency: libclamav.so.2 for package: perl-Mail- 
> > ClamAV
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > Error: Missing Dependency: libclamav.so.2 is needed by package perl- 
> > Mail-ClamAV
> >
> > The libclamav.so.2 is contained in clamav-0.91.2-1.el4.rf, yet it  
> > seems that
> > this file isn't in clamav-0.92 ?
> 
> perl-Mail-ClamAV seems to require libclamav.so.2, but clamav-0.92  
> comes with libclamav.so.3. I don't have perl-Mail-ClamAV installed,
>  so  no problems here upon upgrading clamav.

Is there anything that can be done about this dependency?

>From the above it seems that perl-Mail-ClamAV cannot be installed without
clamav-0.91.2-1.el4.rf being installed (because of the libclamav.so.2 library
being required).

Michael.

> Nils Breunese.
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