Re: 7.2 Python PTFs FYI

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Justin

You have hit on the strategy the IBM i open source team is using - since 
5733-OPS is an official licensed product, they can and do distribute 
fixes in a way that is familiar to IBM i folks - as you said, to "bless" 
them. That is a stated strategy.

As to seeing what is there - is they are SAVFs, one can list them in 
PDM, then put a 5 on the first one, press F13 and then Enter and you'll 
see what is in each one.

That's pretty easy - there are programmatic ways, too.

Regards
Vern

On 1/11/2016 2:13 PM, Justin Dearing wrote:
> Buck,
>
> Is it possible a the PTFs were all python pip modules? IBM might have
> wanted to bless a hundred modules or so as official by makingthem PTFs
> instead of fhaving you install via "pip install" Most of the linux distos
> do that for many perl and python modules.
>
> Is there an easy way to go throughthe PTFs and list the stream files
> installing them will create on the IFS?
>
> Justin
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:49 PM Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The developerWorks wiki for Python has a new page for Python PTFs:
> >
> > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20i%20Technology%20Updates/page/Python%20PTFs
> >
> > I see that there are some new ones, SI58191 - SI58195.  So I ordered
> > them: SNDPTFORD PTFID((SI58191) (SI58192) (SI58193) (SI58194) (SI58195))
> >
> > I was a bit surprised when I saw what looked like hundreds of PTFs for
> > V7R1M0 to be pulled down.  When the SNDPTFORD had completed, I counted
> > the *SAVF objects which have V7R1M0 in the description and there are
> > more than 600 of them!
> >
> > DSPPTFAPYI only shows the 5 PTFs I ordered plus a pre-req, SI58278.
> > LODPTF and APYPTF seemed to go fine.  So I deleted all those 7.1 save
> > files.  There were some for 5770-999, 5770-SS1, 5770-SC1, and 5770-SC1.
> >
> > The LPAR seems fine but it sure is curious that it downloaded all that
> > 7.1 stuff.  CALL QP2TERM, python3 --version responds with 'Python
> > 3.4.2', which is exactly the same as the LPAR without those PTFs so I'm
> > not sure I really got anything accomplished.
> >
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