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

[Michael Mansour]

Hi,

> Michael Mansour wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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 ?
> > 
> > Michael.
> 
> clamav provides libclamav.so.3 now, so I suspect the perl-Mail-
> ClamAV needs to be rebuilt?
> 
> You could uninstall that perl module if you don't need it though.

I do need it though, as I use MailScanner with clamavmodule scanning support.

Using clamavmodule with MailScanner means that scanning is faster and much
lower memory usage, since clamavmodule can load virus defs once into memory
and won't need to reload until virus def updates are made.

Not using clamavmodule means loading virus defs each time clamscan is run and
without hundreds of thousands of messages per day, it's just not feasible to
do that.

Maybe libclamav.so.2 needs to be a part of perl-Mail-ClamAV now? or the
Mail::ClamAV developer needs to be notified to update his perl module to make
use of the libclamav.so.3 ?

Regards,

Michael.

> -Mike
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