Bug#485559: Re: consistent tftpboot directory location [RFC]
Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> Changing the location of the data dir is usually trivial (edit
> /etc/inetd), but ...
people should use debconf for that.
> A tool to query the location of that tftp chroot surely
> help postinst script configuring the package that ship files.
looks overengineered to me. also, there should be, if at all, a shorter
name for it. i still think it should be handled just as /var/www was
used before it was mostly obsoleted.
> 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?
ltsp copies stuff too.
> 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)
that's what one does when introducing a virtual package...
Conflicts: tftpd-server
Replaces: tftpd-server
Replaces: tftpd-server
> atftpd is used by
> tftpd-hpa, ltsp-*, debian-edu-config, pxe, education-thin-client-server
tftpd-hpa does not use atftpd, nor declare any relation whatsoever to it
(except a conflicts, of course :).
Regards,
Daniel
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