On 6/16/12 8:54 PM, "Benny Pedersen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Den 2012-06-16 03:51, Eric Shubert skrev:
>
>> Redistributing the database (2/3 of the size of the download) makes
>> no sense when doing an upgrade, which is by far the majority of the
>> cases. Doing so is a total waste of bandwidth. At the same time, new
>> installs need to have these files one way or another, and can be
>> obtained efficiently either as a separate clamav-db package as Brian
>> does, or perhaps by running freshclam as a post-install process. In
>> any case, I think this is a decision best left to the packager.
>
> why is databases part of clamav tarball in the first place ?,
So that offline installs have some level of protection.
A bout a quarter of the machines I manage have no access to the internet, or
even to a mirror that could get to the internet. If I were to need clamav on
those boxes, I would need some way to get the signatures to them.
However, I don't have a need for this, and and happy for the smaller tarball
size.
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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281
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