Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-28 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:28:58PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > Ah, that one is clamav :) > > This is likely to be a format of zip file that clamav doesn't yet > understand how to unpack. There are, unfortunately, lots and lots of > formats for compression out there, and while more decompressors

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Nick Boyce said: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > >"There is a hard coded path in clamscan that calls internal unpackers > >for zip and rar before trying the specified external unpackers. This > >breaks rar and some zip scanning for no clearly good reason. I am > >talking

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-28 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Johann Spies said: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:06:33PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Johann Spies said: > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:54:19AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > report to say: > > > > > > > > "There is a hard coded path

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:06:33PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Johann Spies said: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:54:19AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > report to say: > > > > > > "There is a hard coded path in clamscan that calls internal unpackers > > > for zip and

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-27 Thread Nick Boyce
Stefan Fritsch wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Nick Boyce wrote: > But it seems to me that simply enabling the --unrar parameter of clamscan would not entail incorporating or distributing any unrar code at all - the code to parse the --unrar parameter and call the non-free unrar binary i

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-27 Thread Nick Boyce
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Nick Boyce said: > .. it seems to me that simply enabling the --unrar parameter of clamscan would not entail incorporating or distributing any unrar code at all - the code to parse the --unrar parameter and call the non-free unrar binary if sp

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-27 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Nick Boyce wrote: > But it seems to me that simply enabling the --unrar parameter of > clamscan would not entail incorporating or distributing any unrar > code at all - the code to parse the --unrar parameter and call the > non-free unrar binary if specified surely be

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Johann Spies said: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:54:19AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > report to say: > > > > "There is a hard coded path in clamscan that calls internal unpackers > > for zip and rar before trying the specified external unpackers. This > > breaks rar

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:54:19AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > report to say: > > "There is a hard coded path in clamscan that calls internal unpackers > for zip and rar before trying the specified external unpackers. This > breaks rar and some zip scanning for no clearly good reason. I am > ta

Re: ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Nick Boyce said: > I'm trying to understand the situation with the Debian Volatile package > of ClamAV and its lack of unrar support. I just found bug #465207 in > which Torsten Jerzembeck asked for the package to have the ability to > call unrar enabled - the mainta

ClamAV And unrar - Bug #465207

2008-02-26 Thread Nick Boyce
I'm trying to understand the situation with the Debian Volatile package of ClamAV and its lack of unrar support. I just found bug #465207 in which Torsten Jerzembeck asked for the package to have the ability to call unrar enabled - the maintainer replied that he is unable to do that because the