On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:44:56PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: > wordpress uses /srv/www/.../uploaded pictures > mediawiki uses /var/lib/mediawiki/images/ > > Seems like wordpress is doing this correctly - from fhs - /var/lib is for > "variable state information" > > and "/srv : Data for services provided by this system"
This comes up frequently on debian-devel (the most recent thread I recall being just a few weeks ago http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/08/msg00347.html ), and consensus is that packaging and packaged software should not touch /srv by default, but should allow the admin to configure things to write into /srv if deemed relevant. Straight from the horse's mouth: [...] no program should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv existing or data necessarily being stored in /srv [...] http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/srv.html If an application has a need to write data to the system which should remain there indefinitely so it can access it again later, and which can't be easily/quickly regenerated by that application, it should go into the /var/lib directory heirarchy by default. Data uploaded by users through a Web UI provided by a packaged application seems to me to fit this description. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); PGP(97AE496FC02DEC9FC353B2E748F9961143495829); SMTP([email protected]); IRC([email protected]#ccl); ICQ(114362511); AIM(dreadazathoth); YAHOO(crawlingchaoslabs); FINGER([email protected]); MUD([email protected]:6669); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
