Update to 8.2.15, modernize the packaging and drop SLE 12 support #2

2026-07-04T22:01:22+02:00

Knine commented

2026-07-04 22:01:22 +02:00

Remove the logrotate config, it was dead anyway and I missed it before:
the client never writes /var/log/boinc-client.log. Its postrotate
restarting the whole client after every rotation never made sense either,
that kills running tasks just to reopen a log file, and some projects
don't have checkpoints.
Also add Wants=network-online.target so the existing After= actually
takes effect.
Build with LTO again, the asm() issue is fixed upstream.
Add the boinc user to the video group, render alone is not enough for
some GPU drivers (NVIDIA). Drop the 2011 sysconfig migration and the dead
BOINC_BOINC_USR/GRP variables.
8.2.15: drop the drupal/ platform cleanup and the boincscr path sed, both
obsolete now.
Drop SLE 12 support: since 8.2.15 the client is built as C++17
(client/Makefile.am forces -std=gnu++1z) and GCC 4.8 can't compile it.

Could you disable the SLE_12 repo for this package in the network project?

* Remove the logrotate config, it was dead anyway and I missed it before: the client never writes /var/log/boinc-client.log. Its postrotate restarting the whole client after every rotation never made sense either, that kills running tasks just to reopen a log file, and some projects don't have checkpoints. Also add Wants=network-online.target so the existing After= actually takes effect. * Build with LTO again, the asm() issue is fixed upstream. * Add the boinc user to the video group, render alone is not enough for some GPU drivers (NVIDIA). Drop the 2011 sysconfig migration and the dead BOINC_BOINC_USR/GRP variables. * 8.2.15: drop the drupal/ platform cleanup and the boincscr path sed, both obsolete now. * Drop SLE 12 support: since 8.2.15 the client is built as C++17 (client/Makefile.am forces -std=gnu++1z) and GCC 4.8 can't compile it. Could you disable the SLE_12 repo for this package in the network project?

Knine added 5 commits 2026-07-04 22:01:24 +02:00

Drop the obsolete logrotate config, add Wants=network-online.target cb16b3861b

The client logs to the systemd journal and no longer writes
/var/log/boinc-client.log, so the rotate rule never did anything.
Remove the config file, its rpmlint filter and the logrotate
recommendation.

Also add Wants=network-online.target to boinc-client.service so the
existing After=network-online.target actually takes effect.

Spec cleanup, LTO, full RELRO and service hardening 983fe0b5ca

Drop configure flags that no longer exist upstream and unused BuildRequires, remove debug lines from the build section, build with LTO again and link with -z now.
Replace the icon cache scriptlets with the RPM file trigger on /usr/share/icons.
Add IOSchedulingClass=idle, ProtectSystem=full and ProtectControlGroups=true to the service unit to bring it in line with what upstream ships.

Add boinc to video group, spec cleanup e20c165ef0

boinc-client 8.2.15 e04b1c366e

Drop SLE 12 support 21b6f9da11

Knine added 1 commit 2026-07-05 12:14:36 +02:00

Drop obsolete build-client-scripts.patch, spec cleanup 5cf441d2c8

The patch rebuilt the generated init script and unit in client/scripts after the "make clean" the spec used to run had deleted them; the clean was dropped and configure generates both files itself.
Also drop the devel subpackage's conflict with itself (leftover from when the package was still named libboinc-devel), a duplicated /var/lib/boinc install and the %autosetup -D flag left over from the two-tarball days.

jengelh manually merged commit 5cf441d2c8 into master

2026-07-10 10:41:11 +02:00

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