Re: FHS reqts on Applications
Alan/Stuart,
I have not checked what we have written in the spec, so excuse my
interjection here. It is my belief that when we discussed the location of
web and FTP data files we did acknowledge that the LSB spec needs to
adequately cover extreem needs also. A proposal was made to locate the
data files under an arbitrary directory location (eg: /data) and to make
it clear that the final location would be an administrators' free choice.
There is a clear need to be more explicit about the LSB spec position on
this. I look forward to the best resolve.
- John T.
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| John H Terpstra
| Caldera International, Inc.
| E-mail: jht@caldera.com, jht@samba.org
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Could this be generalized to a statement that allows certain concession to
> > local administration policies? Would it be OK to allow an app to read from
> > a broader area than it is allowed to write?
>
> Take a look at what it says about web stuff. Now imagine your app is a large
> content management system for web/ftp and other media services for 10,000
> shell users each with their own domains. Tell me the current policy is going
> to work out well.
>
> (Yes I'm picking the extreme to show the point)
>
> Maybe we need to define it so that we cover only the files the package
> installs and config/logs etc (ie some kind of "user specific data used by the
> application" type exemption) ?
>
> Its a hard one
>
>
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