Information Systems:Bart PASE/OSS Activity and Change Log

I do a lot of sysadmin-related stuff with the open-source software in the PASE environment on the i, and it is a solo effort. There is no point announcing these things, since it matters little to anyone. Yet they should be logged, hence this page. -norwizzle (talk)

List of major changes to the PASE environment and open-source on IBM i. This page started late; the retroactive log section below will contain prior milestones.

Changelog

In reverse chronological order.

2018

August

Installed nano, python3.6, ibm_db, itoolkit, numpy, pandas using yum.
Started cleanup of PASE to migrate from 5733-OPS and perzl RPMs to yum-provided packages.

Migrated uwdutils virtual environment to use yum Python (Python 3.6).

July

Installed yum. New way of managing open-source software on IBM i.

Retroactive log

In chronological order:

2016

December: Installed 5733-OPS with Python3.4, git, chroot, bash, tools (sftp, curl, sqlite3).

2017

Installed ibm_db, ibm_db_django from provided .whl packages.
Set up and use sftp in the 5733-OPS:tools package for sending Gilead report.
Set up git to communicate with Github.
Decided against continuing with git on i and using Github. Git will be done through the IDE.
Installed many utilities using perzl AIX rpms.
Created /uwdsrc as the root for open-source project code.
Installed and experimented with Flask and Django.
Attempted to use sqlite3. Discovered bug, installed PTFs to fix.

Early 2018

Set up Django. Officially started InfoNext Project.

Installed gunicorn, set up to run automatically every morning to serve InfoNext.
Created static/ in /webroot to group static files for Django with static files for WebSmart sites (Infonet, Web Orders).

Attempted to change SSH server to use key authentication. Too many problems related to how IBM i does users and groups, reverted to password auth.