[BBLISA] Unix package management

[Miles Fidelman]

Toby Burress wrote:
> So today ClamAV upgraded its database so that software versions<  0.95
> can't read it.  It turns out that the version of ClamAV in Debian "lenny"
> (the current stable version of Debian) is 0.94, so in simply upgrading
> my packages with "apt-get" I scrweed my users.
>
> (The current stable version of ClamAV is 0.96.)
>
> I was wondering what the opinion of The Internet is on this.  Is Debian
> being in any way a turd for distributing such antediluvian software,
> or is this all my fault?
>
>    
for what it's worth, this bit me too - even though I had volatile in my 
sources list

turns out that apt had not been updating clamav because of a dependency 
issues, the solution turned out to be:
apt-get dist-upgrade clamav

Miles Fidelman

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