Update germinator deployment for modern Ubuntu #165
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This script has an annoying tendency to fail silently, with no user feedback. I've adapted the logging feature used by other scripts to write a log to ~/log/messages (currently /home/ubuntu/log/messages).
Apparently this was formerly a manual step? Now we make it official, setting the `hostname` and `/etc/hostname` to survive reboots of the deployed server. This is necessary for apache to trust some configuration. Any chance this goes wrong if we have deployed multiple systems to the same server? e.g. `devtree.opentreeoflife.org` and `devapi.opentreeoflife.org`. Comments welcome!
Many of the packages we need for web2py apps (still on python2.*) are no longer provided in modern Ubuntu. Add the necessary repositories to fetch these anyway, alongside their python3 counterparts for our newer code.
Later steps in as-admin.sh would be skipped (w/o warning!) if some of the files we want to backup are missing, which is entirely likely if only some systems are installed.
Apache (rightly) complained about the missing user, but would also have failed with the old paths to /home/opentree/...
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Hm, it looks like I accidentally picked up an unrelated commit b9a97a5 This should probably be merged, but apologies for the clutter here. |
Stashing this for reference, but it seems to "leak" newer packages and cause trouble. Backing it out next...
This reverts commit 009061e. We'll use a single-file hot fix to venv `activate_this.py` instead
This is just adding the file and README, not yet patching...
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This is necessary for now, since we need to deploy old web-apps etc. on new Ubuntu servers.
NB This is a work in progress, so probably best not to merge at this point. But I'm interested in reviews and (esp.) comments where I might have misunderstood the intent of some actions, or failed to consider the consequences of different deployment scenarios. Thanks!