v8 client on rpm ?

[neilrieck]

Three days ago (so Aug-06, 2025) AlmaLinux announced (on reddit) support for prebuilt Nvidia drivers with CUDA support for both AlmaLinux-9 and AlmaLinux-10. I think this will change things for EL distros. Do you intend to now release a version of the 8.4 client for rpm-based systems?

BTW, until you do, I would think that you cannot retire the v7 client.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlmaLinux/comm ... alinux_os/

https://almalinux.org/blog/2025-08-06-a ... ia-suport/

[muziqaz]

No,
pre-built deb only availability is hardware resource limitation. At least from dev side. Getting this up and running is "a bit" complicated

[Joe_H]

There are directions on the GitHub for Folding@home to create RPMs to install the client. However the developer currently does not have a development platform to create them. They do have platforms to compile the code and create installation packages for Windows, Debian based Linux and macOS.

[arisu]

I wonder why the developer needs a specific platform to do that. I've built RPMs on Debian-based machine. You don't need a RHEL-based system to package an RPM.

[calxalot]

You should discuss with marcos

[muziqaz]

I asked Joe if I can build all the packages, there was no answer to my question. I have all the platforms (Debian, fedora, oSuse, Endeavours). I successfully built packages for suse and fedora. If source files are in order I have no issues building the packages, however, as I said no reaction to my proposal. I did mention, that after I build the packages, they would still need to be validated and checked before published.

[arisu]

He could build the packages on the same server that he builds the cores on. He could have it build RPMs even if the system is Debian-based. Then there is no need to validate a third party compilation.

[calxalot]

I think the cores are built with github actions by others. Joseph then signs them before they are put on download servers.

[muziqaz]

He could build the packages on the same server that he builds the cores on. He could have it build RPMs even if the system is Debian-based. Then there is no need to validate a third party compilation.

I think time constraint is the issue here