ISG D-PHYS Projects Page

This page contains our software we have been developing at the IT Support Group of the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich.

Most of the tools were started by Neil Franklin for the D-PHYS who still maintains a few of them. Those are linked to the appropriate location on his projects page.

Current Projects

dphys-admin package manager, from 2003.06 to today

simple automated package manager for administrating packages on a large number Debian systems

OS/Architectures: Debian/all

Current Author: Axel Beckert

Debian Package Maintainer: No official packages yet

dphys-swapfile setup script, from 2003.08 to today

simple swap file setup script for any Linux

OS/Architectures: Linux/all

Current Author: Neil Franklin

Debian Package Maintainer: Axel Beckert

dphys-config configuration manager, from 2005.05 to today

OS/Architectures: Unix/all

simple config file manager for any Linux, especially large numbers of similar machines or machine groups

Current Author: Neil Franklin

Debian Package Maintainer: Axel Beckert

Discontinued Projects

dphys2 auto-installer, from 2002.05 to 2004.12/sarge

simple automated installer for Debian woody

OS/Architectures: Debian/i386

obsoleted by dphys3

dphys3 auto-installer, from 2004.12 to 2008.03/etch

simple automated installer for Debian sarge

OS/Architectures: Debian/i386

replaced by S99install and the built-in Preseeding

dphys-pkgtools package tools, from 2003.01 to 2008.03/etch

simple Debian package making and distributing tools

OS/Architectures: Debian/i386

replaced by dput and debarchiver

dphys-hotplug action caller, from 2004.11 to 2008.03/etch

flexible script for calling action scripts for hotplug events

OS/Architectures: Linux/all

obsoleted with Linux kernel 2.6 and HAL

dphys-hotplug-usb-storage USB automounter, from 2004.11 to 2008.03/etch

simple automatic mountpoint generator/mounter for USB storage

OS/Architectures: Linux/all

replaced with gnome-volume-manager

dphys-kernel-packages kernel package generator, from 2005.07 to 2008.03/etch

simple kernel config generator and kernel+modules generator

OS/Architectures: Linux/i386

Last Maintainer: Axel Beckert

Debian Packages have been removed from the archive — the package does not make sense to be released with Debian stable releases since it often needs to be modified for new releases of the Linux kernel.

Last updated by Axel Beckert on 25-Aug-2011.