[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#775400: Bug#775400: clamav-freshclam: freshclam cant download virus definitions

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:59:23PM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
Hi Andreas,

> The directory /var/lib/clamav is only removed by dpkg if it is empty.
I just learned that…

> Debconf can only be used to change under which user clamd is run.
> The dbowner is hardcoded to clamav in clamav-freshclam.postinst, but could
> theoretically be changed if one modifies the DatabaseOwner field in
> /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf.
> However, in that case one would have to chown /var/lib/clamav manually.
> 
> Therefore I think it is sufficient to let clamav-base.postinst always chown
> /var/lib/clamav to clamav:clamav.

Yup, care to do that change? I'm a little confused. We have that unstable
branch and then we have a fork for the one bug. I don't know if everything
the bug was about is also fixed in the unstable branch (or needs to).
I think this bug can be fixed in the unstable branch for the next clamav
release (once upstream ships something). Or?

> Best regards,
> Andreas

Sebastian