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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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