diff --git a/net/boinc/Makefile b/net/boinc/Makefile
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+# Copyright 2020 by Christian Dreihsig and Steffen Möller
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=boinc
+PKG_VERSION:=7.16.5
+PKG_VERSION_SHORT:=$(shell echo $(PKG_VERSION)| cut -f1,2 -d.)
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+PKG_SOURCE_DATE:=2020-02-25
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://codeload.github.com/BOINC/boinc/tar.gz/client_release/$(PKG_VERSION_SHORT)/$(PKG_VERSION)?
+PKG_HASH:=33db60991b253e717c6124cce4750ae7729eaab4e54ec718b9e37f87012d668a
+PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/$(PKG_NAME)-client_release-$(PKG_VERSION_SHORT)-$(PKG_VERSION)
+
+PKG_MAINTAINER:=Christian Dreihsig <christian.dreihsig@t-online.de>, Steffen Moeller <moeller@debian.org>
+PKG_LICENSE:=GPL-3.0-or-later
+PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYING
+PKG_CPE_ID:=cpe:/a:boinc_project:boinc
+
+PKG_INSTALL:=1
+PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=0
+PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/target.mk
+
+define Package/boinc
+  SECTION:=net
+  CATEGORY:=Network
+  TITLE:=BOINC client
+  DEPENDS:=+curl +bzip2 +libstdcpp +libopenssl +zlib
+  USERID:=boinc:boinc
+  URL:=https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/
+endef
+
+define Package/boinc/description
+  The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a
+  software platform for distributed computing: several initiatives of
+  various scientific disciplines all compete for the idle time of
+  desktop computers. The developers' web site at the University of
+  Berkeley serves as a common portal to the otherwise independently run
+  projects.
+ 
+  This package provides the BOINC core client program that is
+  required to participate in any project that uses BOINC to control what
+  projects to join and to determine constraints for the computation
+  like the percentage of CPU time. OpenWrt does not
+  provide the graphical BOINC Manager, but you can connect to this
+  machine from the BOINC Manager of your desktop computer.
+endef
+
+CONFIGURE_ARGS += \
+	--disable-server --disable-manager --enable-client --enable-libraries \
+	--disable-boinczip --enable-install-headers --enable-dynamic-client-linkage \
+	--with-boinc-platform=$(REAL_GNU_TARGET_NAME) \
+	--with-boinc-alt-platform=$(ARCH)-$(BOARD)-$(DEVICE_TYPE)-openwrt-$(TARGET_SUFFIX)
+
+define Build/InstallDev
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/include/boinc
+	$(INSTALL_DATA) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/include/boinc/* $(1)/usr/include/boinc/
+	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/*.h $(1)/usr/include/boinc/ # project_specific_defines.h, config.h, version.h, svn_version.h
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/lib
+	$(CP) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/lib/*.a $(1)/usr/lib/
+endef
+
+define Package/boinc/install
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/bin
+	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/bin/* $(1)/usr/bin/
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/lib
+	$(CP) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/lib/*.{la,so}* $(1)/usr/lib/
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/etc/init.d
+	$(INSTALL_BIN) ./files/boinc-client.init $(1)/etc/init.d/boinc-client
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/opt/boinc
+	$(CP) ./files/global_prefs_override.xml $(1)/opt/boinc/global_prefs_override.xml
+	$(CP) ./files/remote_hosts.cfg $(1)/opt/boinc/remote_hosts.cfg
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,boinc))
diff --git a/net/boinc/files/boinc-client.init b/net/boinc/files/boinc-client.init
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+++ b/net/boinc/files/boinc-client.init
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+#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
+
+USE_PROCD=1
+
+BOINCEXE_NAME=boinc_client
+BOINCDIR=/opt/boinc/
+BOINCUSR=boinc
+BOINCEXE_OPTS="--check_all_logins --redirectio --dir $BOINCDIR"
+PID_FILE="var/run/$BOINCEXE_NAME.pid"
+
+start_service() {
+   # First Check that BOINCDIR exists...
+   if ! [ -d "$BOINCDIR" ]; then
+      if ! mkdir -p $BOINCDIR 2>/dev/null ; then
+         echo "ERROR: $BOINCDIR doesn't exist and couldn't be created"
+         return 1
+      fi
+   fi
+
+   # ... and that it is accessible by boinc
+   BOINCDIR_OWNER="$(ls -ld $BOINCDIR | awk '{print $3}')"
+   if [ "$BOINCUSR" != "$BOINCDIR_OWNER" ] ; then
+      chown -R $BOINCUSR:$BOINCUSR $BOINCDIR
+      BOINCDIR_OWNER="$(ls -ld $BOINCDIR | awk '{print $3}')"
+
+      if [ "$BOINCUSR" != "$BOINCDIR_OWNER" ] ; then
+         echo "User boinc can't access $BOINC_DIR"
+         return 3
+      fi
+   fi
+
+   # now use procd to start boinc
+   procd_open_instance $BOINCEXE_NAME
+
+   procd_set_param command $BOINCEXE_NAME
+   procd_append_param command $BOINCEXE_OPTS
+   procd_set_param user $BOINCUSR
+   procd_set_param limits core="unlimited"
+   procd_set_param stdout 1
+   procd_set_param stderr 1
+   procd_set_param pidfile $PID_FILE
+
+   procd_close_instance
+}
diff --git a/net/boinc/files/global_prefs_override.xml b/net/boinc/files/global_prefs_override.xml
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+++ b/net/boinc/files/global_prefs_override.xml
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+<global_preferences>
+   <max_ncpus_pct>50.000000</max_ncpus_pct>
+   <disk_interval>21600.000000</disk_interval>
+<global_preferences>
diff --git a/net/boinc/files/remote_hosts.cfg b/net/boinc/files/remote_hosts.cfg
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+++ b/net/boinc/files/remote_hosts.cfg
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+# This file contains a list of hostnames or IP addresses (one per line)
+# of remote hosts, that are allowed to connect and to control the local
+# BOINC core client via GUI RPCs.
+# Lines beginning with a # or a ; are treated like comments and will be
+# ignored.
+#
+#host.example.com
+#192.168.0.180