Russ Allbery wrote: >> fwiw, using /srv/tftp as tftp server root directory is FHS conformant. > > However, installing anything in that directory would not be
of course. > so I'm not sure that it solves the problem originally expressed in the Policy > bug > around this. It would be nice to know how to handle providing files via > the tftp server, if making them automatically available is something that > people think we should have. even if policy would say that the server root is /srv/tfp, and even if we would make an exception to FHS and allow packages to install stuff inside the server root, one could not relay on /srv/tftp being the server root anyway: tftpd-hpa, at least, does ask for the server root through debconf. current practise is, for e.g. pxe payloads, that packages are installing it into /usr/lib/$package/ (syslinux, bios-memimage, etc.) and that the sysadmin has to make them available in places he wants and at the time he wants it. from a sysadmin point of view, this is imho the only sane way to handle it. Regards, Daniel -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [email protected] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
