Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 22 July 2006 02:49, you wrote:
>> By my reading of FHS 2.3, no Debian-supplied package should be >> installing files into /srv, since /srv is reserved for the local >> administrator for local data. The error message may not be accurate, >> but it looks to me like this still should be an error. Am I missing >> something? > I don't think you are correct: > In > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM > the last sentence about /srv says: > --begin quote ----------------- > Distributions must take care not to remove locally placed files in these > directories without administrator permission. [20] > [20] > This is particularly important as these areas will often contain both files > initially installed by the distributor, and those added by the administrator. > --end quote ----------------- > So, as I read it, /srv is clearly designed for files from the > distribution and locally added ones. How can that be reconciled with: The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as there is currently no consensus on how this should be done. One method for structuring data under /srv is by protocol, eg. ftp, rsync, www, and cvs. On large systems it can be useful to structure /srv by administrative context, such as /srv/physics/www, /srv/compsci/cvs, etc. This setup will differ from host to host. Therefore, no program should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv existing or data necessarily being stored in /srv. However /srv should always exist on FHS compliant systems and should be used as the default location for such data. I don't see any way that shipping files under /srv in a Debian package would be consistent with the second-to-last sentence above. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
