boinc-setiathome on 6.0

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:59:57AM -0500, J.R. Oldroyd wrote:
> On Dec 20, 04:38, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 02:38 am, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > > I get:
> > >
> > >     Message from server: platform 'i386-portbld-freebsd6.0' not
> > > found.
> > >
> > > Does anybody have hints on how to overcome this problem?
> > 
> > Make sure you have a clean build of both and then reset and update your 
> > project. It always took off after that. 
> > 
> 
> I've had this question a few times, so here are the details...
> 
> Boinc is a tool that downloads applications and then datasets,
> runs the applications on that data, and then uploads the results.
> For boinc to be able to download an application, a binary must be
> available on the server for your architecture/OS combination.
>
> However, since FreeBSD isn't as popular as other OSs, most application
> servers don't support downloadable binaries for FreeBSD.  The message
> you saw tells you that you have attempted to download a binary for
> an application for i386/freebsd6.0 but this was not available.
>
> The boinc-setiathome port compiles the SETI application from source
> installs it locally and also installs the file
> ~boinc/projects/setiathome.berkeley.edu/app_info.xml which is used
> by boinc to find the installed SETI application which boinc will
> then use, rather than trying to download a binary from the SETI
> server.

I updated the ports files/app_info.xml to add <executable/> to it
and now it works:

    "May run out of work in 0.10 days; requesting more"


But like I said, I updated the port to have that line in it and it
works now.

Edwin

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