From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NoCwc-00058q-1v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:38:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D77CEE0AA0; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38C6E0A95 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg4 with SMTP id 4so2246762gyg.40 for ; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:38:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=xCm3UkVZ4VzzyYQz7/eRf/da5cS5PDzeS9N3gEucE/k=; b=vhI9PQcnw4/UKwY1VZdWDICNvKSIv9i3v24XwOCakfhfHMx92tvXyyNOLNBxKn7R/+ w3lC998DqDEx8NOwUtnredoQ3VlM4m0cyOk4QyPmABkyf5eWsz99KIRJZpkJqYt60VR+ YZgtQkn0OBv2Mhwzs7HeQ5/qOuptB55UqgvXU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kWABZVuRuRvZqF5pfj/+zV0Zai7+lx7mkqD+4ulOVvQo+xOGfA+XKu0kjg9M+hvvJ2 +eD6SGwy5dbi+DkUxPAldLBprgLUzOaqw/GdZE5o5+nesFsRNcpj8EKPFgk03PDscbAJ 1714P5vPTT62rq2qcsf1rmwQw21a2WhoN0Dn0= Received: by 10.101.172.3 with SMTP id z3mr6453722ano.192.1267954714317; Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:38:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.1] (adsl-0-90-144.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.90.144]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm1394955ywd.41.2010.03.07.01.38.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:38:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B937417.9030202@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:38:31 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100304 Gentoo/2.0.3 SeaMonkey/2.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Lastrite: app-antivirus/f-prot References: <20100306165340.GX1165@gentoo.org> <4B935395.1040905@gmail.com> <20100307092940.GB1165@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20100307092940.GB1165@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7172ecbf-f972-4b20-9f5d-f0355f477e7c X-Archives-Hash: 20d170f36ee8ae644c06707e942cbaf1 Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 07-03-2010 01:19:49 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Fabian Groffen wrote: >> >>> # Fabian Groffen (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 :-) :-)