tags 499790 +wontfix thanks On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:51:27PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >Package: cvs >Version: 1:1.12.13-12 >Severity: normal > >Installing cvs creates /srv/cvs and populates it with data. > >The FHS says that the layout of /srv is unspecified and therefore >packages should not depend on any specific layout by default. IMO they >should not touch /srv at all except when configured to by the sysadmin. > >/srv/cvs gets populated with data because the default debconf location >for repositories is /srv/cvs and the default denconf action for >repositories that are broken or not found is to create them. > >IMO the right fix for this is to set the default debconf location for >repositories to an empty list and perhaps suggest in the text that the >sysadmin should choose /srv/cvs or similar for the data.
To be honest, I think our current interactions with the FHS wrt /srv are completely broken. I'm not going to spend any time on this until we've managed to agree a reasonable policy distro-wide. Feel free to start that discussion... :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
