Bug#366741: patch

[Robert Millan]

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

Yes.  This sounds fine, thanks!

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