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