[Bug 402082] Re: boinc might use /home

[Robert Wall]

The BOINC packages are currently configured on a per-computer basis, not
a per-user basis. This has several advantages:

* the BOINC client can do work while nobody's logged in
* more than one user can control the BOINC instance, as the files are owned by a BOINC user and group
* usually, people don't want to have different configurations for different users

Per-computer files are supposed to be stored in /var/lib/. Doing what
BOINC does on Windows and making a home folder for the BOINC user in
/home/ doesn't seem to be the done thing in Debian-based distros.

Even in situations, like yours, where putting them in /home seems to
make sense, there are potential problems. Jaunty and Karmic's BOINC
packages are different versions, and using the same configuration files
for those two versions is probably not a great idea.

For your particular situation, I'd recommend using the upstream .sh
version at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php, rather than
Ubuntu's packages. If you run that inside your home directory, it'll
install BOINC there, and you can run the binaries it creates from either
karmic or jaunty. That way, you'd be using the same version (in fact,
the same binaries), and shouldn't have problems. However, since you
wouldn't be using Ubuntu packages in this case, it's rather outside the
scope of this venue...

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boinc might use /home
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