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* [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
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
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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