Bug#733977: boinc-app-milkyway: Please sync with upstream

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Ken, I merged and pushed on debian git my local changes.

For separation I didn't succeed in making it work, so I disabled it (otherwise you won't get new work if you submit too many computation error units)

in order to make it work
clone the milkyway code
https://github.com/Milkyway-at-home/milkywayathome_client

clone the debian directory
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-boinc/boinc-app-milkyway.git

make a tarball of the source package
./debian/rules tarball

dpkg-buildpackage

install, enjoy!

report here in case of troubles

thanks

G.


> Il Domenica 12 Gennaio 2014 10:39, Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it> ha scritto:
> > Hi Ken, I had more luck than you in my boinc-app-milkyway from github.
> I can run and validate successfully every milkyway_nbody task but I get a 
> failure on milkybody_separation one.
> 
> I don't have the nbody build now, I can give it to you tomorrow if you are 
> intrested.
> 
> Anyway for making it build:
> install boinc, boinc-app-dev, boinc-dev
> clone the repository
> git submodule init
> git submodule update
> delete the boinc folder (in this way we will use _our_ boinc libraries)
> apply the two pull requests 
> https://github.com/Milkyway-at-home/milkywayathome_client/pulls (or just use the 
> patches in debian directory)
> 
> clone the debian directory from here
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-boinc/boinc-app-milkyway.git
> dpkg-buildpackage should do the trick
> 
> On monday I'll update the debian git repository, it won't work right now
> 
> after you create the package (I'll change the debian/rules for building only 
> the nbody) you will be able to run milkyway.
> 
> As soon as I get more feedbacks, and if I don't figure out what is wrong 
> with separation, I'll update milkyway using only nbody platform (and of 
> course after I'm sure this is the right client to ship).
> 
> EDIT: I see that maybe separation isn't just supported
> http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/apps.php
> http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=3394
> http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=3407
> 
> 
> bests,
> 
> G.
> 
> 
>>  Il Domenica 12 Gennaio 2014 9:27, Ken Sharp 
> <imwellcushtymelike at googlemail.com> ha scritto:
>>  > I'm not sure if the code you referenced is the correct code. 
> According 
>>  to the forums the original code didn't have a licence and the newer 
> code 
>>  hasn't been released yet, at least that's what I got from the 
> reading 
>>  the threads. There really is nothing made clear on the subject.
>> 
>>  I've asked for a little clarity but with no response so far:
>>  http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=576
>> 
>>  I tried building the code from github but it can't find libraries, uses 
> 
>>  old libraries.... a bit of a nightmare. Probably isn't much point in 
>>  using that code until someone officially tells us what is going on.
>> 
>> 
>>  On 03/01/14 00:28, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
>>>   Hi Ken
>>>   thanks for your report.
>>> 
>>>   Unfortunately I tried some time ago to package again milkyway with the 
> new 
>>  code hosted here [1]
>>> 
>>>   Code that I think is the official client one.
>>> 
>>>   Anyway I'm just stuck with some errors when I run the package with 
> 
>>  boinc, and I get only "computation errors" messages.
>>> 
>>>   I also asked two pull requests [2], to fix a build failure and a 
> potential 
>>  security issue.
>>> 
>>>   Nobody replied so far.
>>>   What can I do? Fix everything without upstream support?
>>>   I can, but I don't have time and man power for making the package 
>>  stable without looking really deeply at the code.
>>> 
>>>   I'll try again with the last milkyway code, can you please try to 
> have 
>>  a better contact with upstream?
>>> 
>>>   thanks
>>> 
>>>   [1] https://github.com/Milkyway-at-home/milkywayathome_client
>>> 
>>>   [2] https://github.com/Milkyway-at-home/milkywayathome_client/pulls
>>> 
>>>   G.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>   Il Giovedì 2 Gennaio 2014 20:48, Ken Sharp 
>>  <imwellcushtymelike at googlemail.com> ha scritto:
>>>>>   Package: boinc-app-milkyway
>>>>   Version: 0.18d-4
>>>> 
>>>>   The current version supplied by boinc-app-milkyway appears to run 
> fine
>>>>   on armel but:
>>>> 
>>>>   1. The estimated runtime is always way off.
>>>>   2. The results are always invalid.
>>>>   3. It's a really old version: there will be many changes 
> between 
>>  0.18
>>>>   and the current upstream 1.x branch which will fix a lot of bugs.
>>>> 
>>>>   If there is anything further needed then please let me know.
>>>> 
>>>>   Origin: 
>>  http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=3440#60666
>>>> 
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