dphys-admin Package Manager

Project Basics

This project has produced an dphys-admin script for modifying the package status of the machine. And an init.d script and cron job that run this script.

This project was spawned from the dphys2 project, aimed at automating our site installation and setup (now replaced by the dphys3 project, for sarge, dphys2 was for woody). dphys2 and dphys3 themself auto set up the Debian base system, then dphys-config adds all desired configuration files, followed by dphys-admin then fetching both normal Debian packages, and our own packages generated by dphys-pkgtools.

dphys-admin itsself has spawned the dphys-config project, as mechanism for distributing its own and other packages configuration files.

Since 2005.09.29 dphys-admin requires at least sarge, as it uses apt-get options not present in woody.

Project Status

Done are:

• Made an (now deprecated, use dphys-admin script) dphys-setup.pl script to automatically install/update/remove packages, run by cron or init

• Made an updated dphys-admin script to automatically install new packages, update existing ones, or remove obsolete ones
• Split out of dphys2 into an separate project, as these tools are also usefull without dphys2

• Repeat warnings when not rebooted from last run
• no recursive call and error when it fetches update of itsself
• Bugfix handling simulated userinput when calling apt-get install
• Prevent update of dphys-admin on init running recursive self
• init mode console output
• split out fetching config files from server into dphys-config
• Support `` command execution to generate package names

• Nothing yet

Todo are:

• Nothing planned

Code Download

• Installation Guide
• entire project: dphys-admin.tar.gz
• single files:
  • Makefile, control process
  • dphys-admin, automatically install/update/remove packages, run by cron or init
  • dphys-admin.8, man page for dphys-admin
  • dphys-admin.example, example config file, containing only the default settings as comments, to adapt to your site
  • cron.d.example, example cron job to run dphys-admin every night, for automatic updates
  • init.d.example, example init.d script to run dphys-admin every boot, to catchup on missed automatic updates

• Installation Guide
• entire project: dphys-admin.tar.gz
• single files:
  • Makefile, control process
  • dphys-admin, automatically install/update/remove packages, run by cron or init
  • dphys-admin.8, man page for dphys-admin
  • dphys-admin.example, example config file, containing only the default settings as comments, to adapt to your site
  • cron.d.example, example cron job to run dphys-admin every night, for automatic updates
  • init.d.example, example init.d script to run dphys-admin every boot, to catchup on missed automatic updates

• ../dphys-admin-20040805/Installation Guide
• entire project: dphys-admin-20040805.tar.gz
• single files:
  • Makefile, control process
  • dphys-setup.pl, automatically install/update/remove packages, run by cron or init. This is deprecated, use the new dphys-admin
  • dphys-admin, automatically install/update/remove packages, run by cron or init
  • dphys-admin.8, man page for dphys-admin

• dphys-setup.pl, automatically install/update/remove packages, run by cron or init

• dphys-setup.pl, automatically install/update/remove packages, run by cron or init

External Stuff (Links)

• Debian main site
• Our Debian mirror
• dphys2 project this project was spawned from
• dphys-config project spawned from this project, to load files

This page is by Neil Franklin, last modification 2006.11.24