On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 02:03:01PM +0200, Frank S. Thomas wrote: > On Sunday 20 August 2006 20:20, Robert Millan wrote: > > Ok, this is not what I would send upstream, but I think it's suitable for > > Debian. > > > > Normaly, when you modify <platform_name> in client_state.xml, boinc will > > notice the architecture is different than the hardcoded platform_name in > > the program, and reset the project to avoid incompatible arch mixing. > > > > The attached patch disables this check completely. Instead of resetting > > the project, it sets the <platform_name> in client_state.xml as the valid > > platform_name which will be used for scheduler requests. > > > > As for upstream, my plan is to check <platform_name> in client_state.xml > > against a list of valid alternatives, but this needs some changes in > > m4/boinc_platform.m4 first.. > > > > So could you apply this patch for Debian in the meantime? > > Yes, I'll apply this patch. > > The procedure to make AMD64 clients useful includes then the following steps, > right? > > apt-get install libc6-i386 > invokre-rc.d boinc-client stop > sed -i -e > 's/<platform_name>x86_64-pc-linux-gnu<\/platform_name>/<platform_name>i686-pc-linux-gnu<\/platform_name>/' > /var/lib/boinc-client/client_state.xml > invoke-rc.d boinc-client start
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