On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 21:19 +0100, Steve Basford wrote:

> I did see an interesting idea on the devel mailing list from David "I 
> have a feature suggestion: Incorporate the version number in your
> DNS TXT records and download URLs. Your download mirrors can use 
> symlinks in most cases (when versions are completely compatible) and
> you can easily stop older machines from attempting to download by 
> stopping updates on the 0.96.whatever.clamav.net TXT record. "
> 
> Source:  http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20100408.011105.c584f530.en.html
> 
> Would this idea help minimise any future issues like this?

It was pointed out even before that suggestion was made that 0.95 and
later have a versioning system inside the signature DB which allows clam
to selectively load only parts of the DB.  New incompatible signature
types can be created and 0.95 can be told to ignore them.

-- 
Chris

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