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mod app_info.xml to show version on boincmgr or boincview?
BeemerBiker:
It appears there is no easy way to find which version of seti i am running other than to examine completed output "results". I do see "enhanced 5.17" in boincmgr but I would rather see something like "R-2.2B|xT|FFT:IPP_SSE3|Ben-Joe" . Is there a mod that xml file that can be made so that boincmgr (or boincview) can display the client version I am using?
Could I just replace the "5.17" that is in that xml with 2.2b_SSE3 identifier?
..thanks..
Josef W. Segur:
--- Quote from: BeemerBiker on 18 Apr 2007, 12:42:33 pm ---It appears there is no easy way to find which version of seti i am running other than to examine completed output "results". I do see "enhanced 5.17" in boincmgr but I would rather see something like "R-2.2B|xT|FFT:IPP_SSE3|Ben-Joe" . Is there a mod that xml file that can be made so that boincmgr (or boincview) can display the client version I am using?
Could I just replace the "5.17" that is in that xml with 2.2b_SSE3 identifier?
..thanks..
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No, if the parser didn't totally choke it would end up saying you were using version 2, and there's a good chance the project has a minimum version of 4 or 5 for the application.
Unfortunately when the anonymous platform approach was designed the BOINC authors were thinking about standard builds from the cvs sources, made to support some otherwise unsupported platform. So there's no mechanism to provide the detail you'd like.
Joe
BeemerBiker:
OK - there seems to be another way. BoincMgr reports the column "Application" which seems to be taken from app_info.xml as shown in this section:
<app_version>
<app_name>setiathome_enhanced</app_name>
<version_num>517</version_num>
<file_ref>
<file_name>KWSN_2.2B_SSE2-P4_Ben-Joe.exe</file_name>
Is there any problem with replaceing "setiathome_enhanced" with, for example, "seti_enh_2200_SSE2" ? That way one can spot which version, build and enhancement. Alternately "seti_enh_SSE2_070420" for date of build.
This file is distributed by the optimizer (Ben-Joe) and they would modify the xml to show the new version whenver they release a new build.
my 2c.
I have a bunch of systems and found that by the time I got the last one upgraded the first one was sometimes running old software.
ajs:
--- Quote from: BeemerBiker on 20 Apr 2007, 10:13:05 am ---I have a bunch of systems and found that by the time I got the last one upgraded the first one was sometimes running old software.
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I have some 40+ linux machines and suffer also from this.
to get around it, I wrote a script that can enquire of various thigs on each host
for example glibc version, chicken version, kernel version etc
Josef W. Segur:
--- Quote from: BeemerBiker on 20 Apr 2007, 10:13:05 am ---...
Is there any problem with replaceing "setiathome_enhanced" with, for example, "seti_enh_2200_SSE2" ?
...
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Yes, the project currently only has work for "setiathome_enhanced" applications, and wouldn't send to any other. Before May 2006 it had work for "setiathome", sometime in the future it will probably have some work for "astropulse".
Joe
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