[clamav-users] Why is clam config so different for centos 6 and centos 7

[Al Varnell]

ClamAV distributes only one package. You'll need to ask Fedora why they choose to break it up.

-Al-
ClamXAV User

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 03:17 AM, Sunny Jaisinghani via clamav-users wrote:
> Hello Members,
>  
> This is my very first post/question on this list, so please pardon my mistakes, if any
>  
> We have been running clamav on centos 6 for years and installing and configuring clamav has been very easy.
> We install clamav, clamav-db and clamd packages from fedora epel repository, configure freshclam.conf, clamd.conf and a cron for periodic scanning, and we are done.
> We execute these steps using a chef cookbook and they fail on centos 7
>  
> When I started investigating, I realized that centos 7 needs more clam packages to be installed.
>  
> Can someone explain what caused clamav to split the source into so many packages and how does it help.
> Installing clamav using yum helps pull in its dependencies. However; I don’t see clamav-server being pulled in. What purpose does clamav-server serve. ?
>  
> Before I blindly follow instructions from the web, I need to get these points clarified.
>  
> Thanks
> Sunny


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