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Virus DB Repo
Hi,

Is the virus database updated through a repository (for example svn or cvs)?
I would like to see how virus database changes over time.
Thanks,

~Moe
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Re: Virus DB Repo [ In reply to ]
On 05/17/2010 10:21 PM, Mohammed Al-Saleh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is the virus database updated through a repository (for example svn or cvs)?

No.

> I would like to see how virus database changes over time.

You can look at the emails on clamav-virusdb@
(although signature removals don't show up there).

Best regards,
--Edwin
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Re: Virus DB Repo [ In reply to ]
> From: Mohammed Al-Saleh <moealsaleh@gmail.com>

> Is the virus database updated through a repository (for example svn or cvs)?
> I would like to see how virus database changes over time.

Interesting. I guess there's nothing stopping you from putting the
database in a git repo or similar. You could do a commit each time just
before calling freshclam.

Edwin's response:

> No.

I found surprising, I must say... wouldn't it make sense to use git or
similar so you could easily revert bad signature additions? :)

Regards,

David.
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Re: Virus DB Repo [ In reply to ]
I agree that this would be neat as long as the current way is still
available. I don't want to have to install git or svn on the servers just to
be able to update my clam sigs.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:13 AM, David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>wrote:

> > From: Mohammed Al-Saleh <moealsaleh@gmail.com>
>
> > Is the virus database updated through a repository (for example svn or
> cvs)?
> > I would like to see how virus database changes over time.
>
> Interesting. I guess there's nothing stopping you from putting the
> database in a git repo or similar. You could do a commit each time just
> before calling freshclam.
>
> Edwin's response:
>
> > No.
>
> I found surprising, I must say... wouldn't it make sense to use git or
> similar so you could easily revert bad signature additions? :)
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
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Re: Virus DB Repo [ In reply to ]
On 05/18/2010 03:13 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
>> From: Mohammed Al-Saleh <moealsaleh@gmail.com>
>
>> Is the virus database updated through a repository (for example svn or cvs)?
>> I would like to see how virus database changes over time.
>
> Interesting. I guess there's nothing stopping you from putting the
> database in a git repo or similar. You could do a commit each time just
> before calling freshclam.
>
> Edwin's response:
>
>> No.
>
> I found surprising, I must say... wouldn't it make sense to use git or
> similar

We have a database of signatures and logs of what each update did.
Using git (or another VCS) here would just complicate things, since we'd
need to synchronize that with our internal DB both ways (in case of
reverts).

> so you could easily revert bad signature additions? :)

We can already drop the signature in the next update easily.

Best regards,
--Edwin
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Re: Virus DB Repo [ In reply to ]
On 05/18/2010 03:18 PM, Brandon Perry wrote:
> I agree that this would be neat as long as the current way is still
> available. I don't want to have to install git or svn on the servers just to
> be able to update my clam sigs.

Distributing the virus DB via git/svn wouldn't scale, I don't think
David was suggesting that.

>
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:13 AM, David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>wrote:
>
>>> From: Mohammed Al-Saleh <moealsaleh@gmail.com>
>>
>>> Is the virus database updated through a repository (for example svn or
>> cvs)?
>>> I would like to see how virus database changes over time.
>>
>> Interesting. I guess there's nothing stopping you from putting the
>> database in a git repo or similar. You could do a commit each time just
>> before calling freshclam.
>>
>> Edwin's response:
>>
>>> No.
>>
>> I found surprising, I must say... wouldn't it make sense to use git or
>> similar so you could easily revert bad signature additions? :)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David.
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>>
>
>
>

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