On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:18, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2006-12-06 13:54, Adi Pircalabu wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
extreemly late getting out updates to very time sensitive packages such as SpamAssassin. These packages are a month old.
Cpan at most 24 hours old.
1. What is important for you may not be that important for others
Having the most recent virus definition files is not important?
But SA is a spam flagging engine, not an AV system. I use SA and bogofilter for antispam. The AV work is done by Clam and that is updated on the hour every hour.
2. Newer does not always mean better/safer/faster. It rather means untested.
Certainly not in the case of virus definition files.
Spam != Virus
A generic question: Why would it be so hard for a software updater package to check for the existance of packages installed by other means?
Why would you want this mix-up of package & source installed software? Especially, how can a vendor be able to offer support (a generic term for, let's say, software assurance) If a client requires a particular version of some software, so be it, you'll tailor the solution for them. But the stock version should always contain tested software.
I guess you don't care about your clients missing the occasional new virus that is only caught in the virus definition update that was released today.
See above. I have yet to catch a virus. I once spent an afternoon running all the dangerous .exe files in my quarantine folder through WINE to see if I could infect the system. Alas, the infection rate was low :) I still blew away my test luser account with the ~/.wine directory! Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org