Re: ITH: tftpd-hpa and tftpd servers default rootdirs

[Simon Heywood <simon@triv.org.uk>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:39:42PM +0100, Fabrice Lorrain (home) wrote:
> Simon Heywood a ?crit :
> >As has been pointed out, the Mandrake lot had a discussion about this
> >issue and decided that /var/lib was the most appropriate location from a
> >FHS point of view. 
> Any ptrs ?

There's a changelog entry for their tftp package -

http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/changelog/2002-06/msg00771.php

I asked the maintainer, Stew Benedict, about this. Here's his reply.

Stew Benedict <sbenedict@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> Wasn't really much of a group discussion.  I knew it needed to come
> out of "/".  I discussed it with my boss and the clustering project
> maintainer, whom it would effect.  /var/lib/tftpboot seemed reasonable
> given the FHS description.  Initially I kept a symlink for /tftpboot
> until all affected packages could be updated.

HTH

S.