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

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Michael Mansour wrote:
> 
>>> 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 ?
>>>>
>>>> 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.
> 
> Even though you are correct to some point, caching will cause the virus
> definitions to be kept in memory an even though clamscan invocations have
> a little footprint on performance, loading the virus definitions does not
> have a real impact.
> 
> (Unless you have a memory-shortage problem, but then one can ask why you
> would be scanning emails for virusses on this system)
> 
> The obvious solution is using clamd and clamdscan.

MailScanner does support clamdscan for a while now. So that should do
the trick nicely.

Hugo.


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