Hi, I have some remarks to this bug. First, I think it can be merged with #309554, which severity should be raised at least to important...
(But) #309554 deals with both the FAI_CONFIGDIR (currently defaults to /usr/local/share/fai) and NFSROOT (defaults to /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot) - both variables are set in /etc/fai/fai.conf resp. fai-nfsroot.conf. As I've said in #309554 I strongly believe /srv/ should be used for both. I like to add now, that IMO - if /srv is a policy violation at the moment (vorlon, what is your statement/guess regarding FHS 2.3 and etch ?) - this should be changed to /var/lib/fai and changed again later. Thomas, I really dont think (anymore) that it's a good idea to keep important bugs open for >2 years, just because you don't want to change it twice. My rationale for not having NFSROOT in /usr is that it is supposed to be changed during normal operation (creating, upgrading, adding packages to it) - quoting file:/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/fhs/fhs.html/fhs-4.html : "Any information that is host-specific or _varies_with_time_ is stored elsewhere." (Emphasis mine.) On Friday 25 November 2005 17:10, Stephen Gran wrote: > So long as the files aren't shipped in the .deb, and only put in /srv > when an admin runs the tool, then I think that is exactly the place for > them to go. My only worry was that fai-setup was being invoked > automatically, or that the files were being proposed to be shipped in > the .deb. Both of those scenarios would be wrong. Well, the upcoming fai-quickstart packages postinst copies the simple examples to FAI_CONFIGDIR... Currently there is not code in trunk (for the quickstart package) to setup the nfsroot, but we want this, too. I do find nothing in http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM which says its only up to the local admin to populate /srv, it only says, no program should rely on a specific structure in it. Which fai doesnt do, as it's configurable thru variables. Summary what I think should be done: - raise #309554 to serious - raise #340608 to serious again - merge #309554 and #340608 - change default setting of NFSROOT to /var/lib/fai/nfsroot, maybe even /var/lib/fai/nfsroot/$ARCH - change default setting of FAI_CONFIGDIR to /var/lib/fai/config - close the bug - when FHS 2.3 is required by policy, change those paths to /srv regards, Holger
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