Hi everyone, The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) 2.3, released 29th Jan 2004, introduced a new top-level directory, /srv. It's basically a hierarchy for storing file trees for services.
You can read more about this here: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM As part of the work on GLEP #11, I'm proposing that the default location (yes, it *will* be configurable for people with existing installations) for websites becomes /srv/www instead of /var/www. So, for a non-vhost system, the local website would be installed into /srv/www/localhost/htdocs/. We also need somewhere for backup tools to default to for writing backups. I'm working on an ebuild for backuppc, and I propose that this, by default, uses /srv/backups/<$PN>/ as the place to write backup files. Longer term, I'm sure there are other trees that could find a natural home under /srv. The various SCM tools could be pointed here, for example. Portage itself is one strong candidate. Having portage in /usr does make it difficult to run a system with /usr mounted readonly most of the time. I don't want to just dive in and commit ebuilds that use these new locations without some discussion first ;-) The move to /var/www was forced on us (and on Gentoo users) because we needed to get a security fix out for Apache at the time. If we do this - and I think we should - I'm keen that we're able to do this with a lot of support. So, what do you think? Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ Beta packages for download http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/packages/ Come and meet me in March 2004 http://www.phparch.com/cruise/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C --
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