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@xxxxxxxxxx > > 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@xxxxxxxxxx > 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 -- *** Playing the game for the games own sake. *** Associations: * Debian Maintainer (DM) * Fedora/EPEL Maintainer. * Contributor member of the AlmaLinux foundation. WWW: https://kathenas.org Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kathenasorg Twitter: @kathenasorg Instagram: @kathenasorg IRC: kathenas GPG: 724AA9B52F024C8B
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