CentOS9 Stream – Boinc Client??
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?
7 thoughts on - CentOS9 Stream – Boinc Client??
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
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
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
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
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
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
As promised, I am sending an update on this. The EL9 package for boinc client has indeed appeared in the repositories. I ran “dnf upgrade” on the system last night, and it successfully pulled in the package as an upgrade to the EL8 package I installed a few weeks ago.
That closes out this issue. Thanks Phil for prodding the packaging process along.
Bill Gee