[CentOS] ClamAV from EPEL

Sun May 15 06:10:48 UTC 2016
Jon LaBadie <jcu at labadie.us>

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 02:55:01AM +0000, Richard wrote:
> 
> > 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      WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!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
> >> 
> >> do these warnings raise any problems?
> >> could they be suppressed?
> >> 
> > 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
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