#690788 clamav-freshclam: 'freshclam' won't resume (large) partial downloads.

Package:
clamav-freshclam
Source:
clamav
Description:
anti-virus utility for Unix - virus database update utility
Submitter:
"A. Costa"
Date:
2021-09-20 14:33:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#690788#5
Date:
2012-10-17 15:20:40 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

For the last few days my system can't seem to download the whole 30M
'main.cvd', it fails, tries again, fails, and tries again...:

    Setting up clamav-freshclam (0.97.6+dfsg-1) ...
    Starting database update:
    ClamAV update process started at Wed Oct 10 19:24:11 2012
    nonblock_recv: recv timing out (30 secs)
    WARNING: getfile: Download interrupted: Operation now in progress (IP: 69.163.100.14)
    WARNING: Can't download main.cvd from db.local.clamav.net
    Trying again in 5 secs...
    ^C

Worse, the 'main.cvd' download doesn't resume where it left off.
'freschclam' starts from '0' bytes every time.

Please include an automatic 'resume partial downloads' function
for large stable partial downloads.

(I have dialup ISP.  At 5Kbytes/sec, 30M takes 2 hours to fetch.  This
bug has wasted several hours.)

HTH...
--- data dir ---
total 284
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 272896 Sep 13 08:55 bytecode.cld
drwxr-sr-x 2 clamav clamav   4096 Oct 10 19:59 clamav-16753a50227686aecc875aeec565193e
drwxr-sr-x 2 root   root     4096 May  7  2010 clamav-62d0143e8fb5918d15a5401c84d142be
drwxr-sr-x 2 root   root     4096 May  7  2010 clamav-99ad96242086cdcfdda3504ad4e9d5c6
-rw------- 1 clamav clamav    104 Oct 10 19:59 mirrors.dat

#690788#14
Date:
2021-09-20 14:22:39 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

there was negligible progress upstream with the requested feature. I guess, this will never happen, because it didn't happen in like almost a decade. Thus I recommend to close this issue.

See also Bug #991299 for a related issue.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Patrik Schindler


Patrik Schindler
Leiter Infrastruktur

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