Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:35:39 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boinc-setiathome on 6.0 Message-ID: <200512201435.39445.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20051220203251.GA744@k7.mavetju> References: <20051220103850.GA28819@k7.mavetju> <20051220145957.GL11719@linwhf.opal.com> <20051220203251.GA744@k7.mavetju>
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On Tuesday 20 December 2005 12:32 pm, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> 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.
>
Mine all look like
ruby# m app_info.xml
<app_info>
<app>
<name>setiathome</name>
</app>
<file_info>
<name>setiathome</name>
</file_info>
<app_version>
<app_name>setiathome</app_name>
<version_num>407</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>setiathome</file_name>
<main_program/>
</file_ref>
</app_version>
</app_info>
and they work just fine. All of the work is owned by boinc:nobody. You=20
add something like the following to your /etc/rc.conf
### Bonic - Setiathome parameters
boinc_enable=3D"YES"
boinc_flags=3D"-allow_remote_gui_rpc -redirectio"
If you go to=20
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/team_display.php?teamid=3D30254
you can see my current credits. They were all generated using that file=20
on several machines. When I have run portupgrade while boinc was=20
running, I may have triggered the message you saw because it tried to=20
down load boinc-setiathome and there isn't a version that it can=20
download. You have to stop it, update it, and start it up again.
Kent
=2D-=20
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
"Nunca te acostar=E1s sin saber una cosa m=E1s"
http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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