On 1/29/23 11:27, Philip Wyett wrote: > On Sun, 2023-01-29 at 09:58 -0600, Bill Gee wrote: >> On 1/29/23 05:49, Philip Wyett wrote: >>> On Sun, 2023-01-29 at 09:16 +0000, Philip Wyett wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The ping comment on the bug report has be promptly dealt with by the maintainer and the build >>> for >>> EPEL9 has now been done and will in 7 days work through testing and then drop into EPEL9 for >>> all to >>> install. >>> >>> I hope this is OK for you and dispels the concerns with regards community and how responsive >>> folks >>> within it are. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Phil >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> Oh, very nice! Thank you Phil. I appreciate random acts of senseless >> kindness. :-) >> >> It will be interesting to see how dnf reacts when the el9 package for >> boinc goes live. Will dnf recognize it as an upgrade from the el8 >> package? I will let the group know what happens. >> >> Bill Gee >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Hi, > > The EPEL 8 version is boinc-client-7.20.2-1.el8 and the version submitted to EPEL 9 is > boinc-client-7.20.2-4.el9, so yes it will be seen as an upgrade once it passes out of testing. > > Regards > > Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos As promised, I am sending an update on this. The EL9 package for boinc client has indeed appeared in the repositories. I ran "dnf upgrade" on the system last night, and it successfully pulled in the package as an upgrade to the EL8 package I installed a few weeks ago. That closes out this issue. Thanks Phil for prodding the packaging process along. Bill Gee