I'm working on OSCAR Cluster project and SystemImager projects, and I'm doing 
packaging for those software (multiple packages for OSCAR Cluster). I'm also 
contributing to jobmonarch packaging.

As part of the OSCAR project (which I'm planning to port to openmandriva sooner 
or later), I'm in the process of supporting systemd, and in that process I've 
just hit the atftpd packaging following issues:

1/ I'm unable to find LSB infos about systemd rules (checked V4.1 of LSB Core). 
Does it exists?

2/ What is the correct localtion for tftpboot directory? I've read that 
/srv/tftp would be LSB, but I can't find this in any document. (used by 
debian). I've seen that opensuse uses /srv/tftpboot. rhel and fedora uses 
/var/lib/tftpboot. But in the end, who is right? I mean is there somewhere any 
info that a tftp service must comply to some LSB rules?

3/ I'm stuck with a dilemma: should the service be a SyvInit script (running 
all the time) or an xinetd service? suse alow choice but defaults to init 
service. debian allow both but defaults to xinetd, no fedora package or rhel 
package (but their simple tftp service is using xinetd). and OpenMandriva has 
contradictions about this: the /etc/sysconfig/atftp is shipped with 
ATFTPD_USE_INETD="no", but the init script will use xinetd if no sysconfig file 
is found. Strange.
BTW, the is a bug in openmandriva init.d: if use xinetd, the --daemon options 
should be stripped down from options, and if not used it should be added if 
missing (just like in the debian init script).
echo "$OPTS"|grep -q -- --daemon || OPTIONS="--daemon $OPTS"
I would put that line 67 
(https://abf.rosalinux.ru/openmandriva/atftp/blob/openmandriva2013.0/atftpd.init.d)

4/ To my knowledge, systemd does not allow to have either a service defined as 
a socket and as a service with install section. This means this means that 
ATFTPD_USE_INETD is not possible. Right?
=> If not possible, is there any directive (openmandriva packaging, LSB, 
systemd rules, ...) regarding tftp protocol and systemd packaging?

5/ The /etc/sysconfig/atftpd options file is incompatible with a systemd 
implementation as there is no way to control the --daemon flag in 
ATFTPD_OPTIONS. (or I don't know how to do that).

EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/atftpd
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/atftpd $ATFTPD_OPTIONS $ATFTPD_DIRECTORY

Won't allow to check --daemon option for example while having variable for most 
important options could result in a starting line like the following:

ExecStart=/usr/sbin/atftpd --user ${?ATFTPD_USER:nobody} --group 
${?ATFTPD_GROUP:nobody} --port ${?ATFTPD_PORT:69} 
${?ATFTPD_DIRECTORY:/var/lib/tftpboot}

In other words, do you at openmandriva have any packaging rules when migrating 
a thing like atftp (which can run as xinetd service or as a standalone daemon) 
to systemd?

- 2 packages? (one providing /usr/bin/atftpd and a .service file and one 
providing /usr/bin/in.tftpd and a .socket (+.service) files?)
- 1 package (chose one or another solution)?

Many thanks for an typs, pointers etc...

Best regards.
--
   Olivier LAHAYE
   CEA DRT/LIST


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