[Bug 1250652] Re: Far too many dependencies for boinc-manager

[Ken Sharp]

Version: 7.2.33+dfsg-2~precise1

Sorry it took so long, had left-over menu entries that I needed to hunt
down and purge.

After installing the boinc-manager it works without an error, but during
the subsequent install of boinc-client a warning is printed:

adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/boinc-client' does not
belong to the user you are currently creating.

drwxr-xr-x  2 root          root          4.0K Nov 28 11:30 boinc-
client/

User:group needs to be boinc:boinc rather than root:root. The boinc-
client install does correct this but it should be boinc:boinc to start
with to avoid the warning.

In comment 9 I said: "This exists so that boincmgr can connect to the client automatically."
I can't seem to get this to work at all now, in any package, so I don't really know how to test that at the moment.

And to further complicate the issue:
When purging boinc-client alone you are asked if you want to delete /var/lib/boinc-client. Doing this will remove all the downloaded BOINC projects and so on but it will also recreate this bug. Not doing so could leave a lot of disk space in use. But I think this will be such a rare-use case it can probably be ignored for now. If someone complains then it's something that can be looked at a later point in time.

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