On Sat, 2023-01-28 at 07:45 -0600, Bill Gee wrote:
On 1/26/23 20:25, Philip Wyett wrote:
On Thu, 2023-01-26 at 13:16 -0600, Bill Gee wrote:
I have been running boinc client on CentOS7 hosts for some years. C7 is getting close to end of life. Time to upgrade to C9 ...
But I cannot find a package for the boinc client. "dnf search boinc" returns nothing.
I have enabled both EPEL and RPMFusion repositories.
Is there a boinc client package for CentOS9 Stream?
Hi,
The client seems to have been built for EPEL 9 Next, but not as yet for EPEL 9.
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/boinc-client https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5978
You can file an issue for the package to be branched and built for EPEL9.
[1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/epel-package-request/
Regards
Phil
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Hmmmm...... I figured out a temporary work-around. I downloaded the el8 rpm file from EPEL. It installed with no issues on CentOS9.
I looked at turning in a bugzilla report. That requires having an account at bugzilla. Nope, I do not need to add to the 400+ online accounts I already have. Besides, there is no guarantee that the package would be built in any reasonable time frame. It could be months. I can wait a bit, but not that long.
Is there a way to get dnf to install a "next" package?
It has been a year since CentOS9 came out. The boinc-client package is not yet ready for it. Is there any assurance that it ever will be ready? Answer = no assurance whatever.
In the worst case I will go to SOD ... Some Other Distribution. Fedora 38 can be installed in a text-only mode to run headless, and it has a currently maintained package for boinc-client.
There are both Docker and flatpak packages for boinc-client. I have never been able to get any Docker, flatpak or snap package to work correctly, and it is even worse when trying to run them inside a virtual machine. Those technologies seem to me to be an answer in search of a non-existent question.
Bill Gee _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi,
I see what you mean and I made an error here. I should have checked bugzilla for the request to see if it already existed, which it does.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2092636
I have added a comment to the bug to see if it can be moved forward.
Regards
Phil