Hi there, Le 8 avr. 2010 à 03:11, David F. Skoll a écrit :
> Jonathan Kamens wrote: > >> My company had hundreds of appliances in the field running versions of >> ClamAV affected by this change. When we saw the announcement, we >> immediately started working on figuring out how we were going to get >> them updated by April 15, and we succeeded in doing so. > > We have hundreds of appliances too. Those are easy. Most customers > enable automatic updates and have long since upgraded, and those that > haven't are easy to find and to upgrade. > > The problem is we have some customers who prefer RPM versions of our > software, and still others who install from source on platforms like > NetBSD, Solaris and FreeBSD. We have no administrative control over > their machines, yet if something goes wrong, they (quite reasonably) > call us. On some rpm linux, eg RH5 for example, there is yum. You can provide them a private yum server and this will done. On FreeBSD, there is packages, same add a correct line into /etc/make.conf and portupgrade -pP will fix this for you. > So even though 80% or more of our user-base is fine, I still dread > hundreds of support calls come the 15th. It doesn't do *us* any good > to say "We told you to upgrade... why didn't you?" when some irate > caller's mail is down. 6 months for a security software is big. Do you forgot to upgrade your IOS or Firewall software ? Clamav is security software, if you don't upgrade it, then... you have to be angry with you not author of free software like clamav. /Xavier _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
