Clamav out of date

[Andrew Glen-Young]

On 10/10/2007, Brian Fahrlander <brian at fahrlander.net> wrote:
> >
> > For this reason I am sorry I installed Ubuntu instead of Debian and would not
> > recommend Ubuntu for mail servers.  The Debian volatile repository is not
> > compatible with Ubuntu/clamav due to dependency issues.
>
>      Yeah, I have several of these units in the field; I cringe when the
> clients see it, so far behind. (Epecially when the one Fedora box I have
> left....FC4, fer cryin' out loud, is more up to date.)

It seems to me to be a little extreme to dump a distro because one
package is not up to date. Compiling 'clamav' yourself or even rolling
your own package is pretty trivial.

Then again, maybe ongoing maintenance may be too much of a burden and
I shouldn't generalise your situation. For me this is a non-issue and
I have no problem runnning Ubuntu as a mail server.

>
>      But it'll improve; these things take time.
>

You're definitely correct on this.

- A.