Hi Laurence, On 22.10.17 23:04, Laurence wrote:
> The BOINC client v7.8.3 is available for testing on Linux > > For Debian/Ubuntu > > sudo apt-add-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install boinc-manager kind of :) For the regular user of Debian-derived distros, "sudo apt-get install boinc" is the way to go. No extras. boinc-manager is the GUI for controlling local or remote clients. boinc-client is the client with the boinccmd command line. to install both in one go there is the aforementioned third package (consisting only of dependencies to boinc-manager and boinc-client) with the name "boinc". Both Debian and Ubuntu have BOINC packages shipping as regular parts of their distribution since version 5.2.15 in March 2006. This is some freaking 12 years, see http://snapshot.debian.org/package/boinc/. Mint also takes it from there. The PPA (personal package archive) of Gianfranco is a neat extra service for those aiming at running the very latest very early but do not run the latest version of the distribution (where does this guy get all the energy from? Ubuntu Artful is on 7.8.3, Zesty still on 7.6.33, but later backports to the earlier versions of Ubuntu are to be expected). The same Gianfranco (and sometimes also I) do for the backports.debian.org. It is all in perfect shape as seen on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/boinc . As TarotApprentice had pointed out, this needs an extra flag to apt-get like -t stretch-backports to be installed instead of the sufficiently recent of Debian stable. The number of Debian installations are mostly invariant at https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=boinc . The Ubuntu PopCon is a bit more tedious to read - 45204 installations are reported from those who installed the popularity-contest package. No idea about the other Debian derivatives. > > For Fedora/RedHat/CentOS > > sudo dnf config-manager --set-enable updates-testing > sudo dnf install boinc-manager > > Test reports can be sent to the alpha testing project and bugs can be > reported to the Fedora or Debian bug trackers respectively. > OpenSuSE has https://software.opensuse.org/package/boinc-client but is still at 7.2.42. For arch I found https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BOINC and https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=boinc but they are still at 7.6.33 . I have no contact to either of those maintainers but would only be worried for the also RPM-based SuSE community. I very much agree that a distribution-agnostic self-extracting static version makes perfect sense until those distributions are also covered. However, I would rather work on finding volunteer packagers for those platforms than to work on the .sea for those who do not want to compile the very latest versions themselves. archlinux likely only needs a friendly email informing the maintainers that the 7.8.3 can now be trusted. Cheers, Steffen > > On 16/10/17 00:49, David Anderson wrote: >> 7.8.3 has 90% test coverage and it looks good. >> Any objections to releasing it? >> -- David >> _______________________________________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list >> boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu >> https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >> To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >> (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > > _______________________________________________ > boinc_dev mailing list > boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu > https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu https://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
