* [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: app-antivirus/f-prot
[not found] <20100306165340.GX1165@gentoo.org>
@ 2010-03-07 7:19 ` Dale
2010-03-07 9:29 ` Fabian Groffen
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From: Dale @ 2010-03-07 7:19 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Fabian Groffen wrote:
> # Fabian Groffen<grobian@gentoo.org> (06 Mar 2010)
> # Masked for security issues and discontinued interest from upstream to
> # support non-Windows platforms. Bug #233928
> # Pending removal on April 6, 2010
> app-antivirus/f-prot
>
>
I use f-prot once in a blue moon and have it installed. While I won't
miss it, I went to the website out of curiosity. They *claim* to have
released version 6, which is currently in the tree and is the same
version for windoze. I did read where they are cutting off windoze 98,
ME and such. I didn't see any mention of stopping Linux.
Am I correct to assume that someone has direct contact with them and
they said they are not fixing Linux issues?
Dale
:-) :-)
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: app-antivirus/f-prot
2010-03-07 7:19 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: app-antivirus/f-prot Dale
@ 2010-03-07 9:29 ` Fabian Groffen
2010-03-07 9:38 ` Dale
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Fabian Groffen @ 2010-03-07 9:29 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On 07-03-2010 01:19:49 -0600, Dale wrote:
> Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > # Fabian Groffen<grobian@gentoo.org> (06 Mar 2010)
> > # Masked for security issues and discontinued interest from upstream to
> > # support non-Windows platforms. Bug #233928
> > # Pending removal on April 6, 2010
> > app-antivirus/f-prot
>
> I use f-prot once in a blue moon and have it installed. While I won't
> miss it, I went to the website out of curiosity. They *claim* to have
> released version 6, which is currently in the tree and is the same
> version for windoze. I did read where they are cutting off windoze 98,
> ME and such. I didn't see any mention of stopping Linux.
>
> Am I correct to assume that someone has direct contact with them and
> they said they are not fixing Linux issues?
The problem is that the security fixes are in 6.0.9+, whereas the highest
version for Linux (x86) is 6.0.3. Look at this list:
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/
You can see that for them 64-bit (amd64) is even less important than
x86.
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: app-antivirus/f-prot
2010-03-07 9:29 ` Fabian Groffen
@ 2010-03-07 9:38 ` Dale
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dale @ 2010-03-07 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 07-03-2010 01:19:49 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>> Fabian Groffen wrote:
>>
>>> # Fabian Groffen<grobian@gentoo.org> (06 Mar 2010)
>>> # Masked for security issues and discontinued interest from upstream to
>>> # support non-Windows platforms. Bug #233928
>>> # Pending removal on April 6, 2010
>>> app-antivirus/f-prot
>>>
>> I use f-prot once in a blue moon and have it installed. While I won't
>> miss it, I went to the website out of curiosity. They *claim* to have
>> released version 6, which is currently in the tree and is the same
>> version for windoze. I did read where they are cutting off windoze 98,
>> ME and such. I didn't see any mention of stopping Linux.
>>
>> Am I correct to assume that someone has direct contact with them and
>> they said they are not fixing Linux issues?
>>
> The problem is that the security fixes are in 6.0.9+, whereas the highest
> version for Linux (x86) is 6.0.3. Look at this list:
> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/
> You can see that for them 64-bit (amd64) is even less important than
> x86.
>
>
Then I guess it is bye bye to f-prot. If they won't keep it up to date,
it will either be gone or be dead.
Thanks for the link.
Dale
:-) :-)
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