Date: 9 May 2004 22:26:57 -0000 From: tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas-Martin Seck) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: current qmail-scanner port with clamav and f-prot fails on 4testvirus.org messages Message-ID: <20040509222657.1008.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <409EA958.5030402@bishnet.net>
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* Tim Bishop <tim@bishnet.net> [gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports]: > Sorry - a late reply to this thread. > > I maintain the f-prot port, and the definitions for it. I like to think > I keep the f-prot up-to-date as best I can (currently it's one minor > revision behind, and there's a PR waiting to sort that out). > > However, the definitions are a harder thing to solve. The f-prot guys > update the definitions on an almost daily basis. Should I be updating > the port that often? I suspect not. A better strategy would be for users > of the port to keep the definitions up-to-date manually. How about adding an example script to the port that fetches the updated signatures and that can be customized and cron(8)'ed by the administrator as desired? (Since I do not use these ports I do not know whether such a script is already supplied either by the port or by the vendor.)
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