[EPEL-devel] Re: Future of ClamAV on EPEL ?

[Orion Poplawski]

On 3/7/23 13:48, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
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>  
>  On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 at 15:00, Andrew C Aitchison <andrew(a)aitchison.me.uk 
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
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>      This question is prompted by a question from kumar bava about EPEL7
>      on the ClamaAV Users list:
>      https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2023-March/013338.html
> <https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2023-March/013338.html>
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>      EPEL currently ship the anti-virus ClamAV v0.103.8
>  
>       From September ClamAV 0.103 will be EOL, and all
>      supported versions will require Rust.
>  
>      Rust is available on RHEL 7, 8 and 9 as a part of Red Hat Developer
>      Tools.
>      Does that mean that EPEL will or will not be able to continue packaging
>      ClamAV ?
>  
>      ClamAV do provide rpms, so it may not be the end of the world if
>      ClamAV disappears from EPEL, but the details of the packing,
>      especially config locations and defaults may be different.
>  
>  
>  EPEL packages are maintained by volunteers who 'shephard' a particular 
>  package for as long as the volunteer can do so. I have cc'd the main 
>  ones I have seen making commits and builds in case they aren't following 
>  the epel-devel list closely.
>  
>  That said, EL7 will only be around til June 2024. There will only be so 
>  much 'heavy-lifting' possible to keep things going in that time-frame 
I've been looking into things and I think we will be able to update 
clamav in EL7 and EL8 to 1.0.X once 0.103.X goes EOL.  We're basically 
just waiting on one issue to get resolved at the moment:

https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/issues/842

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