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Message 7169 - Posted: 18 Feb 2008 | 0:58:34 UTC

Hi,

I'm -- with kind assistance of Debarshi Ray and Eric Myers -- packaging BOINC for Fedora.

I'd be very pleased if Fedora users among you would test current RPMS and report any related troubles to me (or comment the review request in Fedora's BZ#433187).

Thanks a lot!
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Message 7170 - Posted: 18 Feb 2008 | 10:20:04 UTC
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With some luck, I should be able to see how it works for me this weekend.

Fedora 7, FWIW.

Is it pretty much the same as Eric's? It places the init.d links and log rotate config, runs as its own user, etc?
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Message 7171 - Posted: 18 Feb 2008 | 12:31:44 UTC - in response to Message 7170.

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Is it pretty much the same as Eric's? It places the init.d links and log rotate config, runs as its own user, etc?

We've been talking and he's based is spec file on mine, as well as my init script and your log rotate script. That doesn't mean this should not be tested and inspected. I'll try also to generate packages for FC6 and FC4 (what I have available right now), and we'll let some work out for testing.

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Message 7172 - Posted: 18 Feb 2008 | 12:56:13 UTC

One thing we'll need to add to this: using the Sandbox scheme* which is used on Mac. Then we create two accounts, boinc_master and boinc_project. Unfortunately we then have a problem launching the Manager (GUI) if it's sgid, because GTK does not like to do that.



* The Trac wiki page for this is totally screwed up and contains something else
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Message 7174 - Posted: 19 Feb 2008 | 0:40:16 UTC - in response to Message 7172.

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* The Trac wiki page for this is totally screwed up and contains something else


Well, the php page redirects to the Trac page...

And have I been looking at something totally screwed up this whole time?
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Message 7175 - Posted: 19 Feb 2008 | 0:41:36 UTC - in response to Message 7171.

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KSMarksPsych wrote:

Is it pretty much the same as Eric's? It places the init.d links and log rotate config, runs as its own user, etc?

We've been talking and he's based is spec file on mine, as well as my init script and your log rotate script. That doesn't mean this should not be tested and inspected. I'll try also to generate packages for FC6 and FC4 (what I have available right now), and we'll let some work out for testing.



Any progress on the log rotate script not starting the daemon if it's already stopped?
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Message 7176 - Posted: 19 Feb 2008 | 1:06:30 UTC - in response to Message 7175.

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Any progress on the log rotate script not starting the daemon if it's already stopped?


Yes, actually, I got that to work, so we should also propagate that out.

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Message 7177 - Posted: 19 Feb 2008 | 10:13:33 UTC - in response to Message 7176.

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KSMarksPsych wrote:

Any progress on the log rotate script not starting the daemon if it's already stopped?


Yes, actually, I got that to work, so we should also propagate that out.



Aye.

I'll try it out tonight and let you know by email tomorrow.
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Message 7178 - Posted: 19 Feb 2008 | 11:21:13 UTC - in response to Message 7172.
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* The Trac wiki page for this is totally screwed up and contains something else

I see...

Find the differences between http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectOptions and http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SandBox. ;-)

I'll report it.

In the mean time, take a look at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ClientSetupLogicWinSix which may be the new Sandbox.
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Message 7179 - Posted: 19 Feb 2008 | 12:25:57 UTC - in response to Message 7178.

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In the mean time, take a look at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ClientSetupLogicWinSix which may be the new Sandbox.

That is certainly much more complete. It's also very Windows specific. But the idea is the same.

On Linux I found a problem with the sandbox idea. You cannot have the Manager sgid, since GTK (used by wxWidgets on Linux) refuses to run sgid, and for good reasons. So some other way to connect the Manager to the core is needed.

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Message 7180 - Posted: 19 Feb 2008 | 14:35:04 UTC

Sandbox is a Wiki test page.

Here's what Nicolas has to say about it:

SandBox is and has always been a standard Trac page "just to practice
and learn WikiFormatting". It never had the contents of sandbox.php. It
currently has ProjectOptions contents because I was testing some changes
(three months ago) and the Preview button wasn't enough.

sandbox.php table layout would be close to impossible to put on the
wiki, so it's left outside.

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Message 7181 - Posted: 19 Feb 2008 | 15:34:01 UTC - in response to Message 7180.

Stainless Cutlass wrote:
Sandbox is a Wiki test page....


Ah, that makes sense. Sort of. The fact that we have a documentation page called 'sandbox' caused the confusion.
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