Boinc exlusive applications dialogue doesnt show binaries

Good eye!

It doesn't look for "certain" extensions, it looks for *any* extension. And most of Linux executables do not have any extension.

The fix should be to change the filter pattern from "*.*" (which matches all files *with* an extension) to "*" (all files). Or, even better, to files that have the executable bit set, if such filter is possible.

Thanks for spotting this out to me, anyway I have already looked into this problem and fixed it in my ppa costamagnagianfranco/boinc /firefox and locutusofborg-ppa.

This wildcard problem has been also reported and fixed upstream a long time ago.

This bug anyway triggered some more bugs:
-check for executable bit: it DOESN'T work with current wxwidgets, I opened a wx bug and they said me that this works with wx 3.0, so I disabled this check until 3.0 gets into debian and ubuntu.
-the add doesn't work, to make it work I followed the upstream guide to change permissions and so on.

I don't know what change made it work (maybe adding the user to boinc group? Chmod the files?)

Pretty sure it was a permission problem in editing the file.

So if anybody wants to help me in fixing the second part of this bug can just use my ppa, follow the upstream guide to client configuration, reboot at each change and tell me which change did the trick.

I have a clean machine right now, so I'll do this trick too.

this should be fixed in commit
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-boinc/boinc.git;a=commitdiff;h=7b538017e9ed8d453045c7d285bbcac4301702bc

this fix will be available in a few hours in my ppas

This bug was fixed in the package boinc - 7.0.65+dfsg-1

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boinc (7.0.65+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Gianfranco Costamagna ]
  * New upstream release.
  * debian/control.in dropped version check
      - pkg-config (>= 0.15) (version 0.25 in stable)
      - autoconf (>= 2.59) (version 2.67 in stable)
      - automake1.9 (>= 1.9.3) (version 1.9.6 in stable)
      - libcurl4-openssl-dev (>= 7.17.1) (version 7.21.0 in stable)
      - python (>= 2.3) (version 2.6.6 in stable)
      - Breaks: udev (<< 136-1) (version 164 in stable)
      - removed boinc-app-seti from boinc-client Suggests field
      - Bumped debhelper required version to 8
    debian/compat
      - Bumped to version 8

  [ Steffen Moeller ]
  * Merged work on packaging of BOINC server code
  * boinc-cgi-stripchart package now built together with server parts

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:45:44 +0200