On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:05:34AM -0700, Richi Plana wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 08:35 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > /srv is not available to distribution vendors. > > The funny thing about this situation is that /srv/ was reserved for use > by the end-users, and as an end-user, that's exactly what I want ... but > all the default server data subdirectories are everywhere else > but /srv/. No one seems willing or knowledgeable enough to move things > to /srv/ even though they really want to (as evidenced by the number of > people clamoring for moves every now and then in the list). No > distribution makes it easy for administrators to choose a subdirectory > for their server data (by easy, I mean via the GUI tools). > > These days, when I install some server package, I can usually find the > configuration information inside /etc/<servicename>/ or similar. > Supporting shared objects and libraries in /usr/lib(64)?/, data files > in /usr/share/<name>/, but the data files are all over the place. +100. We should make it easy for users to put their data in /srv, and that means making it easy to change server configs and SELinux file contexts for /srv/wherever-the-user-wants to match the vendor data locations e.g. /var/www, /var/ftp, /var/lib/mysql, etc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
