[clamav-users] rpm files question [was: ClamAV 0.101.2 announcement?]
Scott Kitterman
debian at kitterman.com
Fri Mar 29 14:26:15 EDT 2019
On Friday, March 29, 2019 06:01:25 PM G.W. Haywood via clamav-users wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, Micah Snyder wrote:
> > This won't help you right now, but our team has been discussing
> > publishing ClamAV on Linux using Snapcraft at the time of each
> > release. Snapcraft sounds like it may be a good option to make
> > ClamAV accessible faster. Would you, and others here, be interested
> > in installing a ClamAV snap in the future?
>
> Not if it wants me to install systemd...
>
> laptop3:~# >>> cat /etc/debian_version
> 9.8
> laptop3:~# >>> apt-get install snapd
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> snapd : Depends: systemd
> ...
For Debian we'll continue to provide clamav updates through the normal update
process. Packaging the security update is on my list for today.
Personally, I think Flatpack is a better solution for such things, but we
strive to support these kinds of things for our users within the distro, so
they don't have to worry about it.
Scott K
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