On Jan 17, 2022, at 2:03 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk> wrote:

On 17.01.22 16:30, Nick Howitt via clamav-users wrote:
I give up. This is like pushing water up hill. There is no sensible way of building the packages in one pass which allows me to package the sigs automatically. It looks like Cisco will block you if you try to down load anything and fighting Cisco or trying to get them to change is a total waste of effort.

cisco does that because of multiple times explained reason.
you are supposed to download with freshclam or use cvdupdate.
that's the only optimisation cisco gives us. all other used to overload the
mirrors.

This.  X 1000.  Cisco provides two tools to do this.  Both tools work perfectly fine.  There is actually no other reason to reinvent the wheel, Cisco has done it twice for you already.