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v8 client on rpm ?
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 5:46 pm
by 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/
Re: v8 client on rpm ?
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 7:10 pm
by 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
Re: v8 client on rpm ?
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 9:48 pm
by 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.
Re: v8 client on rpm ?
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 9:41 pm
by 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.
Re: v8 client on rpm ?
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:01 pm
by calxalot
You should discuss with marcos
Re: v8 client on rpm ?
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:17 pm
by 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.
Re: v8 client on rpm ?
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:29 pm
by 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.
Re: v8 client on rpm ?
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:32 pm
by calxalot
I think the cores are built with github actions by others. Joseph then signs them before they are put on download servers.
Re: v8 client on rpm ?
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:43 pm
by muziqaz
arisu wrote: ↑Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:29 pm
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