On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 10:06:10PM +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 21:26 -0700, Jim Preston wrote: > > > > On 02/11/2011 12:59 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > On 2/11/2011 2:17 PM, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: > > >> We have a strong preference to running only RHEL5+EPEL packages, > > >> so we're kind of stuck on 0.95.1 until EPEL updates or we move to > > >> RHEL6+EPEL which gives us clamav-0.96.1. I expect you will have quite > > >> a few users with the same/similar policy... > > > FWIW, rpmforge has clamav-0.96.5 at the moment. Personally, I would > > > swap repos if epel is going to take over 1.5 years (!) to update an > > > antivirus package. > > > > > And if you are paying for support or RHEL5, I would start bitching > > loudly to RH. It should not take long for a junior engineer to run the > > system through it's paces to validate clamav. Your license and support > > should be worth something, just MHO. > > > Aren't you completely missing the point of a Release, where > functionality is frozen, only security fixes are implemented?
In software where most of the functionality comes through updates from 3rd party over the network, there's not much point to miss. If you want frozen and guaranteed stability, only RHEL itself should deliver verified working signatures. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
