I'm one of the maintainers of the clamav package in Fedora and Fedora
EPEL. I believe that the EPEL packages are currently one of the primary
sources for users of clamav on RHEL based distributions.
We were recently asked about the future of support for clamav in EL7 in
particular[1] since https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html states that
the 0.103.X release series will go EOL on Sep-14 2023. This is prior to
the EOL date for EL7 of Jun-30 2024, and much before the EOL date for
EL8 of May 31, 2029. (See
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata)
This email is to start a discussion of what will happen with clamav
support in EPEL7 and EPEL8. In particular, to inform everyone that it
will be impossible to build clamav 1.X in EPEL7 and EPEL8 due to lack of
rust support. Fedora packaging policies prohibit the downloading of
files from the internet during builds, and the rust/rpm versions in
EL7/EL8 are too old to support the current Fedora rust ecosystem.
Perhaps this will not be an issue and people can simply start using the
RPMs provided by clamav upstream.
We might be able to provide a version of the Fedora EPEL clamav RPMs via
COPR[2], as COPR does not have the restrictions on internet downloads.
However, it won't have the "EPEL" appellation.
I am hopeful that we will be able to provide clamav 1.X in EPEL9.
[1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170297#c3
[2] - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/
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Orion Poplawski
he/him/his - surely the least important thing about me
IT Systems Manager 720-772-5637
NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702
3380 Mitchell Lane orion@nwra.com
Boulder, CO 80301 https://www.nwra.com/
EPEL. I believe that the EPEL packages are currently one of the primary
sources for users of clamav on RHEL based distributions.
We were recently asked about the future of support for clamav in EL7 in
particular[1] since https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html states that
the 0.103.X release series will go EOL on Sep-14 2023. This is prior to
the EOL date for EL7 of Jun-30 2024, and much before the EOL date for
EL8 of May 31, 2029. (See
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata)
This email is to start a discussion of what will happen with clamav
support in EPEL7 and EPEL8. In particular, to inform everyone that it
will be impossible to build clamav 1.X in EPEL7 and EPEL8 due to lack of
rust support. Fedora packaging policies prohibit the downloading of
files from the internet during builds, and the rust/rpm versions in
EL7/EL8 are too old to support the current Fedora rust ecosystem.
Perhaps this will not be an issue and people can simply start using the
RPMs provided by clamav upstream.
We might be able to provide a version of the Fedora EPEL clamav RPMs via
COPR[2], as COPR does not have the restrictions on internet downloads.
However, it won't have the "EPEL" appellation.
I am hopeful that we will be able to provide clamav 1.X in EPEL9.
[1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2170297#c3
[2] - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/
--
Orion Poplawski
he/him/his - surely the least important thing about me
IT Systems Manager 720-772-5637
NWRA, Boulder/CoRA Office FAX: 303-415-9702
3380 Mitchell Lane orion@nwra.com
Boulder, CO 80301 https://www.nwra.com/