On Nov 14, 2007 3:52 PM, Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 08:34 -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2007 6:35 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:20:28PM -0700, Richi Plana wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 22:45 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:jA > > > > > Edubuntu is using /var/lib/tftp as their tftpdir. Should we use it as well? > > > > /tftpboot is the historical tradition going back about thirty years. Why > > > break every script, every book and every third party management tool ? > > > What would be the proper RFC process to go over such a change? As in > > say creating a /srv/fedora/ and start populating it with data or some > > such? > > Don't take this personally, but that is absolutely the worst single idea > I have heard so far in this thread. So now we go from saying "ah, let's > move /tftpboot because it's the in thing to move stuff" to "hey! We can > make everything fedora-centric so sysadmins need to relearn everything". > > Woooo! :-) > You missed the first part of the sentance. What would be the proper RFC process for doing something. It doesnt mean that the suggestion is a good one.. just that instead of some packager doing willynilly what they want.. how should they approach the problem that gets a proper technical engineering response. > > Or say putting in a notice that we would like to move /tftpboot > > to something else and please give us feedback on how we can accomplish > > this with the least amount of pain, and then putting it to a proper > > engineering group to vote on it? > > I vote for just not moving it. It's been around many times the lifetime > of FHS and other "standards", that themselves were based upon what > existed at their inception. If anything these "standards" should be > updated with occasional exceptions, based upon years of reality. > > Yeah, I know, this is a very conservative attitude for a change. I guess > we could just throw out the Linux kernel because it's also based on "30 > year old technology", but it seems to work well for most of us. > I would probably vote for the same thing. However, there needs to be a process for making changes or innovations and getting them advertised in a way that meets the communities needs. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
