Re: Bug#314808: Incorrect directory for web applications.
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:37:27PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 21-Jun-2005, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:59:26PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > >Yet some kind of connection needs to be established so that there's
> > >a clear default location for how PACKAGE should tell whatever
> > >webserver is on the system that there's a new bunch of files to be
> > >published.
> >
> > Given that the layout of /srv is intended to be site-specific, I'm
> > rather dubious about packages placing anything, including symlinks
> > there.
>
> So there's a FHS-specified standard location for service-published
> content that we can't use for Debian packages?
Obviously yes, when the FHS mandate that the location is a local
policy issue. The canonical example is /home, no Debian packages
is supposed to install files there. /srv is similar for server
content.
> > >Having answered the question of "how does Apache know", I hoped to
> > >get closer to answering "how should packages tell $HTTPD".
> >
> > Take a look at the apache2-doc package which installs a config
> > fragment as /etc/apache2/conf.d/apache2-doc referring to the
> > documentation under /usr/share/doc/apache2-doc/manual.
>
> That works for Apache (of certain versions). We should be trying to
> formulate something that can work for *any* HTTPD. While conforming to
> the FHS, if possible.
You can use the Debian menu system for that purpose.
You register webapps with a needs="web" and write menu-methods that
generate httpd config files from then.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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