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a_s_y at sama

Jun 24, 2011, 2:09 AM

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Virus database in tarball

Hello.

Whether to place the virus database in tarball ? It become obsolete
very quickly and take up space. Update is required after installation
in any case.

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Sergey
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alvarnell at mac

Jun 24, 2011, 3:48 AM

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Re: Virus database in tarball [In reply to]

On 6/24/11 2:09 AM, "Sergey" <a_s_y [at] sama> wrote:

> Whether to place the virus database in tarball ? It become obsolete
> very quickly and take up space. Update is required after installation
> in any case.
>
Yes, but it doesn't take as long or as much bandwidth to incrementally
update it as it does to download the entire database every time there is an
update.

-Al-

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a_s_y at sama

Jun 24, 2011, 4:12 AM

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Re: Virus database in tarball [In reply to]

On Friday, June 24, 2011, Al Varnell wrote:

> Yes, but it doesn't take as long or as much bandwidth to incrementally
> update it as it does to download the entire database every time there
> is an update.

Why? Old base may remain after update. User can do it.

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acabng at digitalfuture

Jun 24, 2011, 5:26 AM

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Re: Virus database in tarball [In reply to]

On 06/24/11 11:09, Sergey wrote:
> Whether to place the virus database in tarball ? It become obsolete
> very quickly and take up space. Update is required after installation
> in any case.

Hi Sergey,

this has been discussed many times already.

Rationale is: shipping the db in the tarball helps a lot in reducing
load and bw usage on our mirrors (which are provided for free to all our
userbase) and still allows for quick incremental updates.

Cheers,
-aCaB
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a_s_y at sama

Jun 24, 2011, 6:53 AM

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Re: Virus database in tarball [In reply to]

On Friday, June 24, 2011, aCaB wrote:

> Rationale is: shipping the db in the tarball helps a lot in reducing
> load and bw usage on our mirrors (which are provided for free to all
> our userbase) and still allows for quick incremental updates.

Is it statisc or opinion ?

I thought about it. User download db in any case, in tarball or by
update. Reducing load can be in case of downloading tarball from other
places. But DB archive can be downloaded separatly also.

Or is it a way of fight with human laziness ? :-)

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Sergey
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