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: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > CentOS mailing list > > > > CentOS at 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > 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 -- *** Playing the game for the games own sake. *** Associations: * Debian Maintainer (DM) * Fedora/EPEL Maintainer. * Contributor member of the AlmaLinux foundation. 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