On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 04:53:20PM +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 2:44 AM, Dan Callaghan <dcall...@redhat.com> wrote: > [...] > > The other thing is that this idea of "download some data from the > > internet in order to make this package work" is not a good approach. It > > breaks in exactly the scenario I mentioned above, where a freshly > > installed copy of the package is not actually usable. The pciids and > > usbids database used to be like this too (shipping some old version of > > the data, plus a cron job to pull down updates from the internet) but > > nowadays we have the hwdata package which just gets updated with the > > latest definitions once per month. This is a much nicer solution because > > it means you can install a machine using only Fedora packages (or > > a freshly built disk image) and it already has the data it needs, > > without then going back to some random server on the internet. > > > > Very much agreed. > > > > > > So maybe the ClamAV definitions should be treated similarly? In > > a separate package which gets updated on a regular interval to pull in > > the latest data? > > > > That would be the best solution here, yes. Could someone please file an RFE > against clamav? Done:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1477777
PS: I like the bug number :))
Kind Regards,
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Róman Joost
Senior Software Engineer, Products & Technologies Operations (Brisbane)
Red Hat
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