Seems 7.16.1 has been released but not shown on download page

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Message 92433 - Posted: 9 Aug 2019, 13:07:04 UTC
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc

followed by apt-get install boinc-client picked up 7.16.1

I checked at the boinc donwload page and only 7.14 is shown.
there is no warning about developmental, must the real McCoy

1			8/9/2019 7:52:43 AM	Starting BOINC client version 7.16.1 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu	
2			8/9/2019 7:52:43 AM	log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task	
3			8/9/2019 7:52:43 AM	Libraries: libcurl/7.58.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1 zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.4 libpsl/0.19.1 (+libidn2/2.0.4) nghttp2/1.30.0 librtmp/2.3	
4			8/9/2019 7:52:43 AM	Data directory: /var/lib/boinc-client	
5			8/9/2019 7:52:44 AM	CUDA: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 430.40, CUDA version 10.1, compute capability 6.1, 4096MB, 3972MB available, 6852 GFLOPS peak)	
6			8/9/2019 7:52:44 AM	OpenCL: NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce GTX 1070 (driver version 430.40, device version OpenCL 1.2 CUDA, 8118MB, 3972MB available, 6852 GFLOPS peak)	


Since GPUGrid has serious problems I am switching those GPUs to the new fast seti app that uses Linux. The WOW even starts in a week. Maybe not go back to GPUGrid ever.
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Message 92434 - Posted: 9 Aug 2019, 13:20:54 UTC - in response to Message 92433.  

Effectively, Gianfranco's PPA is "the" bleeding-edge test repository for BOINC under Linux. By adding that PPA, you are giving prior consent to receiving unconfirmed code.

Having said that, Gianfranco does build from official release branch code. The v7.16.1 release code branch was forked (without announcement) 10 days ago, but as yet no formal testing processes have been initiated. I installed the same version myself this morning, and I've initiated some conversations with other members of the development team. That's as much as I'm prepared to say until I hear back from the other developers.
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Message 92435 - Posted: 9 Aug 2019, 13:27:44 UTC - in response to Message 92434.  

Effectively, Gianfranco's PPA is "the" bleeding-edge test repository for BOINC under Linux. By adding that PPA, you are giving prior consent to receiving unconfirmed code.


I understood that when using it in the past but have yet to have a problem due to using it over several years on and off. Now that I have navigated the dependencies needed, I will probably stick to rolling my own.
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Message 92436 - Posted: 9 Aug 2019, 13:27:56 UTC - in response to Message 92434.  
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Effectively, Gianfranco's PPA is "the" bleeding-edge test repository for BOINC under Linux. By adding that PPA, you are giving prior consent to receiving unconfirmed code.

Having said that, Gianfranco does build from official release branch code. The v7.16.1 release code branch was forked (without announcement) 10 days ago, but as yet no formal testing processes have been initiated. I installed the same version myself this morning, and I've initiated some conversations with other members of the development team. That's as much as I'm prepared to say until I hear back from the other developers.


Just wanted to get something other than the 7.9 that comes form 18.04 default install.

Noticed the following:

8/9/2019 8:21:09 AM	GUI RPC request from non-allowed address 2.0.206.175	

that ip address is on your side of the pond. This really concerns me but I do know how to follow up on this and it is scary that every install of Linux boinc shows an attempted probe. Maybe is is just a way to count how many deployments have been made but I have seen probes from more than one location and always just after a fresh install.

[EDIT]
Some thoughts on dependencies and how things can quickly change.

I keep a list of what I did so as to quickly install ubuntu followed by either AMD or NVIDIA (gave up on Intel).

Things change:
Wanted to convert AMDGPU-PRO system to NVidia (ubuntu 18.04) but amdgpu--uninstall does not exist even though recent posts on askubuntun and stackoverflow still show that as how to uninstall.

Anyway, I simply put in nvkidia and nvidia took over which was nice.
However my driver install for 390 that worked last week does not work anymore and googleing around found driver-430

Anyway, got it working
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