[clamav-users] Where can I download daily.cvd, bytecode.cvd and main.cvd from?

[Arjen de Korte]

Citeren Joel Esler via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>:

>> On Jan 17, 2022, at 10:17, Maarten Broekman via clamav-users  
>> <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>>
>> And, after 7 days, you'll see warning messages about outdated  
>> definitions when clam starts up.
>
> And Freshclam and cvdupdate will still download the right files.

This largely depends on your build system. In the openSUSE Build  
Service (OBS) we start out with a 'clean' build environment for every  
(re)build, so running freshclam during build, would mean it would need  
to download the full database again for each build (which probably  
would lead to blacklisting pretty quickly). That means, if we would  
have network connectivity during build (which is not the case). We  
don't consider packaging the database files useful, as these will be  
outdated almost immediately and keeping them fresh by packaging them,  
would mean *huge* downloads almost daily.

In cases where you need a database, just copy them over on a flash  
drive. If you want to install something on a compromised system  
without network connectivity, you'll need to use portable storage  
anyway.