On 28/05/13 21:36, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> On 05/28/2013 02:08 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> The latest ClamAV that I can find pre-ported fro SL6 x86-64 is
>>
>> http://pkgs.repoforge.org/clamav/clamd-0.97.7-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
> 
> EPEL has a slightly newer version of this package:
> 
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=413926

I can recommend the EPEL version.  I'm using it in several production
environments.

>> Will this RPM "override" dependencies in the "stock" SL distribution?
>> EL (and Linux in general) does not seem to have reliable polymorphism
>> -- the default for these sorts of dependencies generally does not seem
>> to install a different executable/library sub-tree independent of the
>> stock distribution except in so far as the same files (e.g.,
>> libraries) are used.

There should be no issues with running the EPEL version at least.  No
dependency issues from what I've seen.

>> However, ClamAV still appears to be pre-production (0.x, not 1.x).  Is
>> it stable and useful?

Don't look yourself blind on version numbers - especially on Open Source
project.  Having a release being 0.x-something doesn't mean it's not
stable or usable.  You need to check what the each project defines as
their stable release.

<http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/>

And FWIW, Zimbra ships with these ClamAV 0.x versions as well as part of
the integrated anti-virus mail checks.

What is even more important with anti-virus, is updated virus databases.
 Which gets updates almost every day, and freshclam in ClamAV takes care
of that job.


--
kind regards,

David Sommerseth