[yocto] [meta-security][PATCH] clamav: freshclam need bind to run

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 01:38:38AM +0530, akuster808 wrote:
> 
> 
> On 4/6/19 8:31 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 06, 2019 at 08:15:40PM +0530, Armin Kuster wrote:
> >> Add it to the rdepends for that package
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster808 at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >>  recipes-security/clamav/clamav_0.99.4.bb | 2 ++
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/recipes-security/clamav/clamav_0.99.4.bb b/recipes-security/clamav/clamav_0.99.4.bb
> >> index 6219d9e..dbe903f 100644
> >> --- a/recipes-security/clamav/clamav_0.99.4.bb
> >> +++ b/recipes-security/clamav/clamav_0.99.4.bb
> >> @@ -152,3 +152,5 @@ RCONFLICTS_${PN} += "${PN}-systemd"
> >>  SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "${BPN}.service"
> >>  
> >>  RDEPENDS_${PN} += "openssl ncurses-libncurses libbz2 ncurses-libtinfo clamav-freshclam clamav-libclamav"
> >> +
> >> +RDEPENDS_freshclam = "bind"
> > freshclam depending on a DNS server looks very wrong.
> got talk to clamav folks then.
> 
> >
> > What is the actual problem?
> 
> ClamAV update process started at Sat Apr  6 14:59:25 2019
> WARNING: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.net
> WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode.
> ERROR: Can't get information about database.clamav.net: Temporary failure in name resolution
> ERROR: Can't download main.cvd from database.clamav.net
> Giving up on database.clamav.net...
> 
> because 
> 
> Use DNS to verify virus database version. Freshclam uses DNS TXT records
> to verify database and software versions 
> 
> therefor I am including bind.

freshclam needing DNS information makes sense, which means it must be 
configured how to access a DNS server.

On the local machine you need only DNS client funtionality,
just like every user needs for a web browser.

Forcing installation of a DNS server is not the correct solution
when the actual problem is just a configuration issue on the
machine where you were trying it.

> - Armin

cu
Adrian

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