From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 9 15:27:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1E016A4CE for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 15:27:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.netcologne.de (smtp2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 806C943D39 for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 15:27:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org) Received: from laurel.tmseck.homedns.org (xdsl-213-196-242-12.netcologne.de [213.196.242.12]) by smtp2.netcologne.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C2843A1C3 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 00:27:12 +0200 (MEST) Received: (qmail 1009 invoked by uid 1001); 9 May 2004 22:26:57 -0000 Date: 9 May 2004 22:26:57 -0000 Message-ID: <20040509222657.1008.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> From: tmseck-lists@netcologne.de (Thomas-Martin Seck) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Organization: a private site in Germany In-Reply-To: <409EA958.5030402@bishnet.net> X-Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports X-Attribution: tms Subject: Re: current qmail-scanner port with clamav and f-prot fails on 4testvirus.org messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 22:27:15 -0000 * Tim Bishop [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.)