Package: debian-policy
Severity: wishlist
[Opening a bug, as suggested on debian-policy@d.o . sorry for spamming]
Hello,
As I were writing an email about the consistency of tftpboot directory,
I fount a previous debian-policy thread[1] where it seemed that a
consensus were already met.
(If you wonder why I'm interested with this, see [2])
I've worked on the following policy snippet. As far as I am concerned, I
would rather make the default location compulsory, and probably drop
"tftp-get-root-location" then.
Here it is. Your comments/amendments are welcome :
--- START ---
11.12 Packages providing a tftp server
Packages that provides a tftp server (tftpd) which meets the criteria
listed below should declare in their control data that they provide the
virtual package tftp-server.
To be a tftp-server, a program must:
* Provide a TFTP service compatible with RFC 783 and 1350.
* Serve filenames relatively to the defined tftp-root, not
relatively to the system root directory (/).
* Provide a program named "/usr/bin/tftp-get-root-location" which
returns the location of tftp root, as currently configured and
enabled by the system owner.
And it should :
* Define /srv/tftp as the default tftp root directory.
Note : The tftp-server is not expected to follow/serve symbolic links (due to chroot).
--- END ---
I have also attached a typical "tftp-get-root-location" script (for
tftpd-hpa, but it should be simple to adapt for other daemons).
Franklin Piat
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2005/03/msg00046.html
[2] http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/debian/di-netboot-assistant/
Attachment:
tftp-get-root-location
Description: application/shellscript