[clamav-users] freshclam and various formats of base

[Al Varnell]

Sergey,

I’m not sure I understand what you are asking here.

You refer to an event that has happened once in what, ten years?

And you are suggesting changes to package managers which, as far as I am aware, ClamAV® has no control over?

-Al-
Al Varnell
Mountain View, CA

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Sergey wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Several years ago database format changed sometimes when
> upgrading ClamAV. This does caused problems when restart
> clamd after upgrade. This could be solved by means of
> the package manager, RPM for example:
> 
> %post
> for FNAME in `ls --ignore=*.socket /var/lib/clamav`; do
>    [ -h /var/lib/clamav/$FNAME ] && continue
>    [ -d /var/lib/clamav/$FNAME ] && rm -rf /var/lib/clamav/$FNAME
>    [ -f /var/lib/clamav/$FNAME ] && rm -f /var/lib/clamav/$FNAME
> done
> 
> Can it be not used it now ? The virus database is 
> large now and download continues for a long time. Can
> clamd ignore wrong format now ? Can freshclam to clear
> /var/lib/clamav independently ?