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Cisco-Talos / cvdupdate

ClamAV Private Database Mirror Updater Tool
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Allow the use of a different base url #15

Closed abelmokadem closed 3 years ago

abelmokadem commented 3 years ago

Current setup automatically goes to database.clamav.net. It would be nice if there is a way to configure the tool so that it can point to a different URL.

finchy commented 3 years ago

The tool is made to download from database.clamav.net. Not another URL

abelmokadem commented 3 years ago

If that's the case then so be it. Maybe you should consider removing the URLs from the config file. You have a config command, yet you don't support changing this URL. From a user's perspective, this can be frustrating. In the end, it's your project though. Either way, I'm a happy user of this project. Thanks 👍

micahsnyder commented 3 years ago

For daily, main, and bytecode this tool is for syncing from the official source (database.clamav.net). I too don't see much point in allowing you to change the URLs, but you could remove the default databases (cvd remove --help) and then add your own (cvd add --help).

And you could use cvd update to sync additional files from other servers in case you want to sync some unofficial db's with this tool. Take a look at cvd add --help. I haven't done much testing with this, so if there are bugs please let us know and I'll try to fix them as time permits or review PR's as time permits.

There's a related project which probably does a better job with the unofficial databases though. It is made specifically for this purpose: https://github.com/rseichter/fangfrisch.

abelmokadem commented 3 years ago

Thanks a lot for pointing that out @micahsnyder. Will have a look into this tool. I like the idea of being able to pull in different databases using a single tool.