Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-23 Thread Steffen Möller
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

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-22 Thread Laurence
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 For Fedora/RedHat/CentOS sudo dnf config-manager --set-enable updates-testing sudo dnf install

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-22 Thread Richard Haselgrove
Presumably it would be worth enquiring into the coverage offered by the distribution-specific packaged versions, before committing any resources. What proportion of our Linux volunteers (both current and potential) are running a dialect of Linux for which there is an active package maintainer?

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-22 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, On 17.10.17 00:15, David Anderson wrote: > Our policy for a long time was: > > - provide a .sea release (including manager) for current Ubuntu/x86, >   with no effort to make it run anywhere else. > - provide a client-only (no manager) release built on an old Linux > system, >   everything

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread David Anderson
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AdminTasks and https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AdminAlphaTest On 10/16/2017 2:16 AM, Laurence wrote: Thanks,  I did not know about this. Is this documented anywhere? How are the results collected? I notice that there is an absence for the Linux

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread David Anderson
Our policy for a long time was: - provide a .sea release (including manager) for current Ubuntu/x86,   with no effort to make it run anywhere else. - provide a client-only (no manager) release built on an old Linux system,   everything static, for maximum compatibility.   We have a

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Steffen Möller
On 16.10.17 23:07, Laurence Field wrote: > Hi Steffen, > > On 16/10/17 16:46, Steffen Möller wrote: >> >> And he also builds the complete packages together with the server side >> components afterwards that go to the experimental section of Debian - >> see the boinc-server-maker package >>

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Laurence Field
Hi Steffen, On 16/10/17 16:46, Steffen Möller wrote: And he also builds the complete packages together with the server side components afterwards that go to the experimental section of Debian - see the boinc-server-maker package

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Steffen Möller
On 16.10.17 15:07, Laurence wrote: > Hi Jord, > > On 16/10/17 12:24, Jord van der Elst wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Richard Haselgrove >> > >> wrote: >> >>     Berkeley has outsourced the distribution of Linux

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Laurence
Hi Jord, On 16/10/17 12:24, Jord van der Elst wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Richard Haselgrove > wrote: Berkeley has outsourced the distribution of Linux clients to the package maintainers for individual

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Jord van der Elst
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:06 PM, Richard Haselgrove < r.haselgr...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > Berkeley has outsourced the distribution of Linux clients to the package > maintainers for individual distributions, for several years now. > Laurence is the release manager for Linux, I suspect he

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Richard Haselgrove
Berkeley has outsourced the distribution of Linux clients to the package maintainers for individual distributions, for several years now. The latest versions endorsed by Berkeley and offered on  http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php are: Recommended version: 7.2.42 (28 February 2014)

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Jord van der Elst
Start here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/index.php There's an absence of Linux entries, because we do not have a 7.8.3 available for testing 'from Berkeley', but only via people like Gianfranco from his personal PPA. If he (or you) were to request that the people testing that version would add

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Laurence
Thanks, I did not know about this. Is this documented anywhere? How are the results collected? I notice that there is an absence for the Linux operating system but as 3/4 of the resources are from Windows user, the Windows client is obviously more important. Laurence On 16/10/17 10:47,

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Jord van der Elst
Laurence, the test number comes from https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_summary.php with no red reports at all: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/alpha/test_details.php?version=7.8.3 The only (major) problem still there is for the Spanish person, but I think that's either a missing character and thus

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Laurence
On 16/10/17 00:49, David Anderson wrote: 7.8.3 has 90% test coverage and it looks good. Where does the 90% come from? Any objections to releasing it? A few issues need to be addressed before releasing on Linux. There is no reason why this should block the Windows and Mac releases though. We