Greetings, Sven. At least one BOINC project now requires net-fs/cvmfs for certain jobs. It would be useful if a USE flag were added to BOINC to pull that in. It should be optional, as not all projects need it. Many thanks.
Which one would need that? I am planning to bump the client soon, and would add that USE-Flag, but need the project name for documentation purpose.
This is from a message on the Atlas@Home site: "... CVMFS is required to run ATLAS native tasks..." See https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_user_posts.php?userid=21541 It isn't very clear, not least because the threading marks have got lost, but the upshot is that CVMFS is required for Atlas@Home projects to multitask. I'll have a look elsewhere on the site to see if the requirement is documented properly.
In fact, this forum post seems to do the job: https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_thread.php?id=5342#41861
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3b5cff7a666c493b0421d43a5742f318fb1e5485 commit 3b5cff7a666c493b0421d43a5742f318fb1e5485 Author: Sven Eden <sven.eden@prydeworx.com> AuthorDate: 2022-07-27 12:03:05 +0000 Commit: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-08-01 08:34:39 +0000 sci-misc/boinc: Add optfeature message to point out net-fs/cvmfs CVMFS is needed to run ATLAS native tasks from LHC@home. But besides not being needed by anything else, it is also only available on x86 and amd64. Therefore this did not become a USE flag but an optional feature message. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/811249 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/811249 Signed-off-by: Sven Eden <sven.eden@prydeworx.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26619 Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> sci-misc/boinc/boinc-7.20.2-r2.ebuild | 5 ++++- sci-misc/boinc/boinc-9999.ebuild | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Additionally, it has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3b5cff7a666c493b0421d43a5742f318fb1e5485 commit 3b5cff7a666c493b0421d43a5742f318fb1e5485 Author: Sven Eden <sven.eden@prydeworx.com> AuthorDate: 2022-07-27 12:03:05 +0000 Commit: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-08-01 08:34:39 +0000 sci-misc/boinc: Add optfeature message to point out net-fs/cvmfs CVMFS is needed to run ATLAS native tasks from LHC@home. But besides not being needed by anything else, it is also only available on x86 and amd64. Therefore this did not become a USE flag but an optional feature message. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/811249 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/811249 Signed-off-by: Sven Eden <sven.eden@prydeworx.com> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/26619 Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flow@gentoo.org> sci-misc/boinc/boinc-7.20.2-r2.ebuild | 5 ++++- sci-misc/boinc/boinc-9999.ebuild | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)