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It’s Official April 6, 2008

Posted by gnukathryn in BOINC, Configuration, Fedora, Nifty!, RPM.
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BOINC has been added to the Fedora 7 and higher repositories. You can use your favorite GUI front end or just do

# yum install boinc-client boinc-manager

The cool part is my logrotate config file is in the repositories as part of the package. I don’t know how geeky that makes me, but it sure did make me feel good. I don’t program, so there’s isn’t a whole lot I can do to give back to the Fedora community. So I think it’s cool that I was able to contribute in this small way.

Notes to Self December 19, 2007

Posted by gnukathryn in BOINC, Fedora, Installing, RPM, Software, Terminal.
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I’m in the process of testing out a rpm for BOINC. Woo hoo!

Some notes to self:

  • After creating a tarball of one’s working install. One needs to move it somewhere for safe keeping. One’s data partition is a great place for said safe keeping. When one needs to move something to said partition, it helps if one mounts said partition before trying to move it. Somehow I think I now have a /Data directory hanging out somewhere. I’ll have to remove it once I find it.
  • rmdir only works on empty directories. If there are files in there, you have to use rm -r.
  • Using rm -r on a directory that has a metric ton of files takes a very long time because it runs in interactive mode. If one is really sure one wants to get rid of the whole thing, use rm -rf.
  • Once you remove a directory containing a file, the soft links pointing to said file break. And programs that need said link to file to function correctly will also break.
  • It is impossible to echo something > broken_soft_link_name. You must rm broken_soft_link_name first.
  • Wiping out a users home directory is a Bad Thing ®. Not having all the hidden config files causes Very Bad Things ® to happen, including not being able to access the account from the shell. Having a backup is a Good Thing ®. Knowing how to restore said backup is an Even Better Thing ®. And finding out that said restored backup works is an Extremely Good Thing ®.

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Watch this space for further updates…