Clam/SA package: possible inconsistency?

[Julian Field]

David Lee wrote:
> Jules,
>
> Historically, I have maintained the Clam+SA aspects of our MailScanner
> installations (mostly Fedora-based OSes) using RPM for ClamAV and CPAN
> for SA.
>
> I would like to switch to using your package.  This, in theory, ought to
> give better support, better consistency, and easier installation.  But
> I've stumbled across an apparent inconsistency in the ClamAV section.
>
> Your software (MS, SA) generally installs directly into system locations.
> Examples:
>    /usr/sbin/MailScanner  (binary)
>    /etc/MailScanner/   (directory)
>    /usr/bin/sa-learn (binary)
>
> In that sense, they are RPM-like.  (That's fine with me!)
>
> But (uniquely, I think), your build of clamav wants to install into
> "/usr/local".  This seems inconsistent with your builds of MS and SA.
>
> Is this difference a deliberate decision?
>
> Could you consider making your version of clamav install into the natural
> system locations (just like your other software), rather than this unique
> "/usr/local" location?
>   
I just let it install ClamAV where the source wants to let me install it.

If you want a /usr installation of ClamAV, I would strongly recommend 
Dag's RPM builds of it. All available at http://dag.wieers.com/. The 
installer for my ClamAV+SA package now asks you whether you want it to 
install ClamAV for you, in case you prefer to use Dag's RPM build of it.

Jules

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