On Tue, July 2, 2013 17:34, John Hinton wrote: > I very much liked the rpmforge repo for many years. However, clamav > was one that I wasn't so happy with from them. It seems the > username would switch back and forth from clam to clamav to clam > to clamav and I would have a non-working version which I didn't > always know about. (log file wrong user permission problems) > Ditto here, and for the same reasons. > I switched the clamav install to epel and have had flawless success > with their packaging. It's easy to do excludes for various repos so > that you don't get conflicting installations. > > Rpmforge and Daz have done great work and I'm not meaning for this to > sound negative. It was just this one package. Maybe it was two > packagers switching the username depending on who did the update? > I don't know. This was our experience as well; changing userids between clam and clamav between updates caused us a lot of avoidable headaches. We switched to epel for clamav because of that one issue. Otherwise we have been very pleased with rpmforge. It will prove a great loss if there is a serious possibility that this resource might fade away. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3