On 28/05/13 21:36, Pat Riehecky wrote: > On 05/28/2013 02:08 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: >> The latest ClamAV that I can find pre-ported fro SL6 x86-64 is >> >> http://pkgs.repoforge.org/clamav/clamd-0.97.7-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm > > EPEL has a slightly newer version of this package: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=413926
I can recommend the EPEL version. I'm using it in several production environments. >> Will this RPM "override" dependencies in the "stock" SL distribution? >> EL (and Linux in general) does not seem to have reliable polymorphism >> -- the default for these sorts of dependencies generally does not seem >> to install a different executable/library sub-tree independent of the >> stock distribution except in so far as the same files (e.g., >> libraries) are used. There should be no issues with running the EPEL version at least. No dependency issues from what I've seen. >> However, ClamAV still appears to be pre-production (0.x, not 1.x). Is >> it stable and useful? Don't look yourself blind on version numbers - especially on Open Source project. Having a release being 0.x-something doesn't mean it's not stable or usable. You need to check what the each project defines as their stable release. <http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/> And FWIW, Zimbra ships with these ClamAV 0.x versions as well as part of the integrated anti-virus mail checks. What is even more important with anti-virus, is updated virus databases. Which gets updates almost every day, and freshclam in ClamAV takes care of that job. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
