Bug#485559: Location of tftpd folder

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:50:27PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> writes:
> > Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> 
> >> There was already some discussion on this topic. Would it be possible
> >> to define the location in the policy?  See bug #485559
> 
> > fwiw, using /srv/tftp as tftp server root directory is FHS conformant.
> 
> However, installing anything in that directory would not be, 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.

I agree with you on the FHS bit, of course.
Something I would like to see is d-i netboot.tar.gz provided as a Debian 
package for easy set up of a d-i net installer.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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