[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#741675: clamav-base: Missing quoting and bogus generated config file

[Juhani Karlsson]

same problem, tried also clean install after "apt-get remove clamav 
clamav-base clamav-daemon clamav-docs clamav-freshclam libclamav6 --purge":

root at abcdefg:~# apt-get install clamav clamav-base clamav-daemon 
clamav-docs clamav-freshclam libclamav6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
   libclamunrar6
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   clamav clamav-base clamav-daemon clamav-docs clamav-freshclam libclamav6
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/7 269 kB of archives.
After this operation, 15,8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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serious bugs of clamav-base (-> 0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) <unfixed>
  #741675 - clamav-base: Missing quoting and bogus generated config file
Summary:
  clamav-base(1 bug)
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Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package libclamav6.
(Reading database ... 266865 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libclamav6 (from .../libclamav6_0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package clamav-base.
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Selecting previously unselected package clamav-freshclam.
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Selecting previously unselected package clamav.
Unpacking clamav (from .../clamav_0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package clamav-daemon.
Unpacking clamav-daemon (from 
.../clamav-daemon_0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package clamav-docs.
Unpacking clamav-docs (from 
.../clamav-docs_0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libclamav6 (0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) ...
Setting up clamav-base (0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/clamav-base.postinst: line 403: [: too many arguments
Setting up clamav-freshclam (0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/clamav-freshclam.postinst: line 353: [: too many 
arguments
[....] Starting ClamAV virus database updater: freshclamERROR: Missing 
argument for option at line 10
ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf
  failed!
Setting up clamav (0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) ...
Setting up clamav-daemon (0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) ...
[FAIL] Clamav signatures not found in /var/lib/clamav ... failed!
[FAIL] Please retrieve them using freshclam ... failed!
[FAIL] Then run '/etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start' ... failed!
Setting up clamav-docs (0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u2) ...
root at abcdefg:~# freshclam --verbose
ERROR: Missing argument for option at line 10
ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf
root at abcdefg:~#