ClamAV From EPEL

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Hello,

just curious;
since March 3rd, 2016 everdays logwatch-mail shows this:

Last Status:
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.99 Recommended version: 0.99.1

on May 4th, 2016 I updated clamav by yum update clamav since then the daily logwatch-mail shows this:

Last Status:
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.99.1 Recommended version: 0.99.2

I guess, that it happened accidentally, that I just updated the day before ClamAV did a bigger change;
as I had tried ‘yum update clamav’ several times before;

do these warnings raise any problems?
could they be suppressed?

Greetings, Walter

5 thoughts on - ClamAV From EPEL

  • It’s been awhile since I used ClamAV but when I did, I would rebuild the new version by modifying the src.rpm of the old version to the new version but using a 0 in the release tag so that it would be replaced by a repo maintained version as soon as it hit the repositories.

  • It generally takes a week or so for an update to make it to epel. They are still showing 0.99.1-1. You might want to check the epel-testing repo in a couple of days.

    I think that that clamav warning message is a bit more dire sounding than necessary.

  • Agreed. As an observation, I don’t update daily, but more than once a week. For the last two clamav updates, 0.98.7->0.99 and
    0.99->0.99.1, the warnings lasted for 5 and 4 weeks.

    jon

  • wouldn’t it be a good idea to include libclamunrar.so and libclamunrar_iface.so?

    I agree;

    Greetings, Walter