[Slackbuilds-users] RFC: possible BOINC submission

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

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On Mon 24 Feb 2014 02:41:03 AM WIT, King Beowulf wrote:
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> A couple of queries to the list:
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> 1. Is anyone interested in having BOINC https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
> added to the SBo repository?  Any comments, advice, are welcome.  For
> example: desktop file, install to /opt or $HOME, rc.boinc, etc.
>
> 2. They seem to have dropped their tarball snapshot download
> locations, or at least I can no longer find it, and they just point
> everyone who wants the source to the git repository.  BOINC is pushing
> everyone to use their precompiled install script (UBUNTU, ugh!).  I
> could just repackage that, but their binary can act a bit odd on
> Slackware. Compiling from source is highly recommended and preferred.
>  To get a source tarball for the script, I use:
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> # git clone git://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc-v2.git boinc_repo
> # cd boinc_repo
> # git archive --format=tar --prefix Boinc-7.2.39/
> client_release/7.2/7.2.39 | bzip2 > ../Boinc-7.2.39.tar.bz2
>
> Is there an easier way? Or does anyone know of a link to the stable
> snapshots?

I would say use tags as your base for creating the source
It's all documented in
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SourceCodeGit



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