Bug#485559: Re: consistent tftpboot directory location [RFC]
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 15:08 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:37:42AM +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote:
> > Package: debian-policy
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > 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.
>
> 1. If /srv/tftp is used as the default location, it cannot be made
> mandatory, and users must have a simple way to change it.
> (see the FHS definition of /srv).
Changing the location of the data dir is usually trivial (edit
/etc/inetd), but ...
> 2. What use to you see for tftp-get-root-location ?
Unlike web servers, file served by tftp server but be actually located in
the tftp server's data directory (because the server is chrooted)
Therefore, tools like di-netboot-assistant needs to copy files in that
chroot.
A tool to query the location of that tftp chroot surely
help postinst script configuring the package that ship files.
> 3. Since tftp does not follow symlink and packages are not allowed to
> install file into /srv/, how can packages provide contents to the tftp
> server in a user-friendly way ?
>
di-netboot-installer copies the file in the chroot. I don't know about
other, but they can't ship files in either /var/lib or /srv, isn't it?
> 4. To be useful, a virtual package like tftp-server need to have some
> other packages depending on it. Which packages are you envisionning that
> will depend on tftp-server ?
Note: I suppose that tftp server should conflict with each other (dnsmasq
could be an exception because the tftp server isn't enabled by default)
atftpd is used by
tftpd-hpa, ltsp-*, debian-edu-config, pxe, education-thin-client-server
tftpd is used by
di-netboot-assistant, m68k-vme-tftplilo, jffnms, fai-server
tftpd-hpa is used by
di-netboot-assistant, ltsp-server*, debian-edu-config, pxe, fai-server
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