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From: David Bolt on 3 Jul 2010 10:47 On Saturday 03 Jul 2010 15:05, while playing with a tin of spray paint, Rob painted this mural: > When the security updates repository has the update, then why does > the Updates repository not have it? It could be in the testing part of the updates repository, but not yet finished the quality assurance part of the testing and so not yet released to the main updates repository. > Can I just install the version from security updates repository over > the default one without risking future problems? You should be able to. I build ClamAV in one of my build service home projects, and have done for a long while. Before that, I was building it locally because the updates usually took several weeks to appear. All the time I've been using the one from the build service, or locally built packages, there hasn't been a single issue. > Or do I need to remove the existing one first? Perform it like any other update. > What happens with the config files? From what I've seen, ClamAV will read the old config and merge any changes you made to it into the new one. One interesting thing that I've just noticed is that ClamAV is no longer built in Factory, but all maintenance of it is now under the security repo. The same has happened with other packages where they are now maintained in other repos. I do recall mention of this movement of packages into other repos being mentioned on one of the mailing lists, although I can't recall which one, and I can't honestly recall why. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net openSUSE 11.0 32b | | | openSUSE 11.3RC1 32b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11
From: WLS on 4 Jul 2010 13:07 On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:01:45 +0200, Inge Svensson wrote: > Rob skrev 2010-07-03 12:33: >> I have recently updated a system at work from SuSE 10.0 to openSUSE >> 11.2 in the hopes that it would get automatic updates again. This >> system is scanning mail for viruses using ClamAV. >> >> When it was still 10.0, I had to manually update ClamAV regularly, by >> fetching the sources and re-compiling. With recent ClamAV versions >> this has become a major compilation job that took a long time on the >> poor little machine. >> >> With the new version I sort of assumed that the new ClamAV updates, >> that usually are brought forward as "security updates", would be part >> of the automatic updates of the system. And I think they were, when >> 10.0 was still a supported system. >> >> But now, with ClamAV 0.96.1 released on May 19th, the system is still >> at ClamAV 0.96 and no updates are offered. ClamAV is complaining >> loudly: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! (it always does this when >> a newer version is available) >> >> Is there any hope for a ClamAV update via openSUSE or am I back to >> having to compile this myself? > clamAV is in the 11.2 update directory > http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/rpm/i586/ Inge Svensson But ClamAV 0.96.1 is not in that repository. -- openSUSE 11.2x86_64 (Gnome 2.28.2) | AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3000+ | 2GB RAM
From: Inge Svensson on 4 Jul 2010 14:30
WLS skrev 2010-07-04 19:07: <snip> >> clamAV is in the 11.2 update directory >> http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/rpm/i586/ Inge Svensson > > But ClamAV 0.96.1 is not in that repository. > > > I saw that after I posted the message, which I recalled. Inge Svensson |