Upgrading ClamAV from Source RPM

Prior to rebuilding SRPMs create a seperate account for building RPMs and set up the environment for it:

# su -
# useradd rpmbuild
# su - rpmbuild
# mkdir -p rpm/{BUILD,RPMS/$ARCH,RPMS/noarch,SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS,tmp}

Replace "$ARCH" with the architecture(s) you plan to build packages.

Then create the minimal "~/.rpmmacros" file with the below contents:

%_topdir               /home/rpmbuild/rpm
%_tmppath              /home/rpmbuild/rpm/tmp

Now we are ready to build RPMs from SRPMs.

  1. Download the latest source rpm from dag.wieers.com to the "~/rpm/SRPMS" directory.
  2. Install the source if you want to further customize the spec file for building the rpm.
    $ rpm -ivh SRPMS/clamav-version-release.src.rpm
    
  3. Else, rebuild clamav RPM from the source RPM:
    $ rpmbuild --rebuild --define '_without_milter 1' --define \
      '_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0' SRPMS/clamav-version-release.src.rpm
    

    In my case, I use clamav with MailScanner... so I will not be using clamav-milter for sendmail, so it will build without it.

  4. Once the packages are re-built, change to root user and install via:
    # rpm -Uvh /home/rpmbuild/rpm/RPMS/$ARCH/clam*.rpm
    

    Which should install clamav, clamav-db, clamav-devel and clamd.

  5. Test by updating the virus database and notify clamd if you have it running:

    # /usr/bin/freshclam -v -l /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log --daemon-notify


Customization Notes for MailScanner:

  1. With MailScanner only clamav and clamav-db is required.
  2. Merge the "/etc/freshclam.conf" file with the "freshclam.conf.rpmnew" .
  3. Removed the daily freshclam cron as MailScanner takes care of updating the ".cvd" database hourly.
  4. Pointed freshclam logs to go to "/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log" in "/usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate" instead of "/var/log/clamav.log".
  5. Updated path to freshclam to "/usr/bin/freshclam" in "/usr/lib/MailScanner/clamav-autoupdate" instead of "/usr/local/bin/freshclam".
  6. Backed up and deleted the old "/etc/clamav.conf" file. Clamav currently uses "clamd.conf" instead.
  7. Further cleanups of files and folders, left behind from old installs:
    • Deleted old log files "/var/log/{clamav.log,clamd.log}"
    • Delete old folders "/var/{run/clamd,lib/clamav}"
    • Delete old folder and files in "/usr/share/clamav"
  8. `service MailScanner restart`

If you are being lazy... here are the downloads with md5sums built against RedHat EL 3 :


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Upgrade to ClamAV 0.85 using dags spec file...

  1. Download the 0.85 release and move it to the SOURCES directory:

    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.85.tar.gz

  2. Download the spec file from dags repository to the SPECS directory:
    $ wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/clamav/clamav.spec
    
  3. Edit the spec file and change the version to 0.85 .
  4. Build the rpm using:
    $ rpmbuild -bb --define '_without_milter 1' --define \
      '_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0' SPECS/clamav.spec
    

md5sums and RPMS built for RHEL3:

538db6cebe88fb8821e38e22eaf45408 -- clamav-0.85-1.ss.i386.rpm
c30e9ec48c30feda6c6fd4b0598a4a87 -- clamav-db-0.85-1.ss.i386.rpm
81182fd78caa0943fcf066bb7bca0d37 -- clamav-devel-0.85-1.ss.i386.rpm
06ec7fba19323eebf383b63c99c0ed69 -- clamd-0.85-1.ss.i386.rpm

MailScanner with Perl ClamAV Module

  1. If you are on Ensim Pro, you probably already have this installed as an ensimized version of "perl-Mail-ClamAV". Skip to step 4 and 5.
  2. Download and install ClamAV as usual.
  3. Then do the following:
    perl -MCPAN -e shell
    install Parse::RecDescent
    install Inline
    install Mail::ClamAV
    
  4. In MailScanner.conf, set 'Virus Scanners = clamavmodule'.
  5. In MailScanner.conf, check the setting of 'Monitors for ClamAV Updates' to ensure it matches the location of your ClamAV virus database files.


    Note: If you are using dags rpms as above, the database is located at "/var/clamav".

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