From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 20:34:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BBEB16A41F for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:34:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail2out.barnet.com.au (mail2out.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC94343D46 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:34:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail2out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 27) id 7A3507073C7; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:34:27 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <43A86AD3000090B57217B4@BarNet> Received: from mail2-auth.barnet.com.au (mail2.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.barnet.com.au", Issuer "BarNet Root Certificate Authority" (verified OK)) by mail2.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50AA67073B3; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:34:26 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (edwin-3.int.barnet.com.au [10.10.12.2]) by mail2-auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6C7B7073FD; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:34:25 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7D7761E1; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:32:51 +1100 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:32:51 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: "J.R. Oldroyd" Message-ID: <20051220203251.GA744@k7.mavetju> References: <20051220103850.GA28819@k7.mavetju> <200512200438.08552.kstewart@owt.com> <20051220145957.GL11719@linwhf.opal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051220145957.GL11719@linwhf.opal.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kent Stewart Subject: Re: boinc-setiathome on 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:34:32 -0000 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 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 -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/