[HLUG] Clamav engine out of date

[Gordon Alabaster]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 23:50 +0000, Julian Robbins wrote:

> We had this same problem when setting up an Ubuntu server with Clam. 
> Clam doesnt really sit nicely with any of the 'normal' packaging regimes 
> in terms of timeline.
> 
> I think we tried the Debian Volatile packages, but these didnt work for 
> us on Ubuntu ....
> 
> We tried another Ubuntu repository,     .......... tower.net (??)) But 
> sometimes this wasnt updated for a couple of weeks.
> 
> In the end, we had to go with the 'roll your own' so a new clam engine 
> is downloaded and compiled each time. Works but is a bit of a pain.
> 
> 
> I had a similar problem when using an Ubuntu server with Zope and Plone 
> installed. It was only a test box, so I upgraded it as per the usual 
> Ubuntu/debian means, ie apt-get dist-upgrade after changing the repos 
> (not the preferred way to do it now !!).
> 
> But when it come to Plone, it hadnt run the upgrade script that needs to 
> be run when upgrading Plone, and was a real mess. I had to completely 
> re-install.
> 
> So this does happen with a few other applications too.

Hi Julian,
Thanks for sharing your experiences on app version updating outside the
distro norm. This confirms my decision to leave Clamav as fedora wants
it, at least for now, and think about updating fedora in the near future
to get more up to date versions of most apps. 

So, how do you decide when to update your distro version? I started with
Mandrake 10.1 and went to Fedora core 3 when Mandrake became Mandriva.
Then I updated to Fedora core 5 when it got a good review in LXF and
they brought out a special with discs. There is a certain amount of work
to updating and lots more with a change of distro, so I need to time
things for when I have spare time available.

Regards

Gordon.