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
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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
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