On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 15:00, Andrew C Aitchison <and...@aitchison.me.uk> wrote:
> > This question is prompted by a question from kumar bava about EPEL7 > on the ClamaAV Users list: > https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2023-March/013338.html > > EPEL currently ship the anti-virus ClamAV v0.103.8 > > From September ClamAV 0.103 will be EOL, and all > supported versions will require Rust. > > Rust is available on RHEL 7, 8 and 9 as a part of Red Hat Developer Tools. > Does that mean that EPEL will or will not be able to continue packaging > ClamAV ? > > ClamAV do provide rpms, so it may not be the end of the world if > ClamAV disappears from EPEL, but the details of the packing, > especially config locations and defaults may be different. > > EPEL packages are maintained by volunteers who 'shephard' a particular package for as long as the volunteer can do so. I have cc'd the main ones I have seen making commits and builds in case they aren't following the epel-devel list closely. That said, EL7 will only be around til June 2024. There will only be so much 'heavy-lifting' possible to keep things going in that time-frame > Thanks, > > -- > Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK > and...@aitchison.me.uk > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- Stephen Smoogen, Red Hat Automotive Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle. -- Ian MacClaren
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