Bug#485559: Location of tftpd folder

[Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>]

Russ Allbery wrote:
>> fwiw, using /srv/tftp as tftp server root directory is FHS conformant.
> 
> However, installing anything in that directory would not be

of course.

> so I'm not sure that it solves the problem originally expressed in the Policy bug
> around this.  It would be nice to know how to handle providing files via
> the tftp server, if making them automatically available is something that
> people think we should have.

even if policy would say that the server root is /srv/tfp, and even if
we would make an exception to FHS and allow packages to install stuff
inside the server root, one could not relay on /srv/tftp being the
server root anyway: tftpd-hpa, at least, does ask for the server root
through debconf.

current practise is, for e.g. pxe payloads, that packages are installing
it into /usr/lib/$package/ (syslinux, bios-memimage, etc.) and that the
sysadmin has to make them available in places he wants and at the time
he wants it. from a sysadmin point of view, this is imho the only sane
way to handle it.

Regards,
Daniel

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