[CentOS] ClamAV from EPEL

Sun May 15 02:55:01 UTC 2016
Richard <lists-centos at listmail.innovate.net>

> Date: Saturday, May 14, 2016 16:20:41 -0700
> From: Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>
>
> On 05/14/2016 01:22 PM, Walter H. wrote:
>> 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      WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!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      WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!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
>> 
>> 
> 
> 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.