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

[Scott Kitterman]

On February 19, 2023 1:26:44 AM UTC, Michael Orlitzky via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>On 2023-02-18 15:40:55, Orion Poplawski via clamav-users wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>
>I'll be backporting security fixes for as long as that's less work
>than removing clamav from our mail system (or until newer signatures
>are incompatible with the old engine). Feel free to watch the Gentoo
>tree and steal our patches.

We'll do the same after 0.103 is no longer supported.  It would be nice to get upstream support for a little while longer though.

Scott K