[clamav-users] Future support of clamav in EPEL7 and EPEL8

[Orion Poplawski]

I'm one of the maintainers of the clamav package in Fedora and Fedora 
EPEL.  I believe that the EPEL packages are currently one of the primary 
sources for users of clamav on RHEL based distributions.

We were recently asked about the future of support for clamav in EL7 in 
particular[1] since https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html states that 
the 0.103.X release series will go EOL on Sep-14 2023.  This is prior to 
the EOL date for EL7 of Jun-30 2024, and much before the EOL date for 
EL8 of May 31, 2029. (See 
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata)

This email is to start a discussion of what will happen with clamav 
support in EPEL7 and EPEL8.  In particular, to inform everyone that it 
will be impossible to build clamav 1.X in EPEL7 and EPEL8 due to lack of 
rust support.  Fedora packaging policies prohibit the downloading of 
files from the internet during builds, and the rust/rpm versions in 
EL7/EL8 are too old to support the current Fedora rust ecosystem.

Perhaps this will not be an issue and people can simply start using the 
RPMs provided by clamav upstream.

We might be able to provide a version of the Fedora EPEL clamav RPMs via 
COPR[2], as COPR does not have the restrictions on internet downloads. 
However, it won't have the "EPEL" appellation.

I am hopeful that we will be able to provide clamav 1.X in EPEL9.

[1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170297#c3
[2] - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/
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