Mail::ClamAV [was: Re: SAVI-Perl/Sophos on RedHat Enterprise 4]

[Jeff A. Earickson]

All,

With 0.16 on Solaris 9, the tests failed like so:

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/Mail-ClamAV....NOK 11#     Failed test (t/Mail-ClamAV.t at line 115)
t/Mail-ClamAV....NOK 12#     Failed test (t/Mail-ClamAV.t at line 116)
t/Mail-ClamAV....NOK 13#     Failed test (t/Mail-ClamAV.t at line 117)
# Looks like you failed 3 tests of 13.
t/Mail-ClamAV....dubious
         Test returned status 3 (wstat 768, 0x300)
DIED. FAILED tests 11-13
         Failed 3/13 tests, 76.92% okay
Failed Test     Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/Mail-ClamAV.t    3   768    13    3  23.08%  11-13
Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 3/13 subtests failed, 76.92% okay.

Per the discussion here, I edited t/Mail-ClamAV.t and commented out the
one line using scanbuff.  After that the tests all passed. Don't know
if this is the right thing to do or not...

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, David Lee wrote:

> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 11:08:51 +0000
> From: David Lee <t.d.lee at DURHAM.AC.UK>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Mail::ClamAV [was: Re: SAVI-Perl/Sophos on RedHat Enterprise 4]
>
> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, David Lee wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> We too have this problem (FC3, also ancient RH 7.3).  Rick Cooper has
>> found that this seems to be an error within its tests (i.e. Mail::ClamAV
>> itself is OK).  From an amended version of its "t/Mail-ClamAV.t" that he
>> gave me, I derived the following patch.
>> [...]
>
> On Friday, I emailed the author (Scott Beck) of Mail::ClamAV about these
> issues, and he has released version 0.16 over the weekend.  This seems to
> have fixed most of the failures in the test suite, but it a separate set
> of residual failures at the end, related to the "scanbuff" interface onto
> ClamAV itself.  I understand from the "clamav-devel" list that this
> interface is deprecated (scheduled for removal at ClamAV 0.90).
>
>> From the MailScanner perspective, I think the experience of people on this
> list with Mail::ClamAV 0.14 is that none of these failures in that
> module's test suite is important.  I've just installed 0.16 and that, too,
> seems fine.
>
> I've also written to the author again suggesting that he might simply
> remove his "scanbuff" tests.
>
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