On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:59:26PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >On 20-Jun-2005, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:12:56PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: >> > - service-published content goes somewhere under /srv/ >> > - /srv/ is site-defined >> > - thus shouldn't be clobbered by the package manager >> >> > That last one's a bit of a blocker, isn't it? We can put stuff in >> > /usr/share/PACKAGE/SOMETOKEN/ without worries. But how can we set >> > up a web application so it's ready to go, if the right place to >> > publish from is not writable by the package manager? >> >> Yes, there's the rub. I think there's room for moving forward on >> this point, I just don't think that editing policy is the place to >> start; nor do I think this particular policy bug has anything at all >> to do with /srv, because you don't want the files belonging to the >> packages themselves to be affected by whatever local policy the site >> admin chooses to impose on /srv. > >Yet some kind of connection needs to be established so that there's a >clear default location for how PACKAGE should tell whatever webserver >is on the system that there's a new bunch of files to be published. > >If /srv/FOO/ -> /usr/share/PACKAGE/webapp/ is a level of indirection >that's required, are we saying there's another level required to >buffer /srv/ from our package system?
Given that the layout of /srv is intended to be site-specific, I'm rather dubious about packages placing anything, including symlinks there. >> > We could pass the question back a level: where should Apache, et >> > al, be looking for their web content? How can we tell Apache to >> > look under /srv/www/ if that directory is site-defined? >> >> Telling apache to look there doesn't clobber any contents set up by >> the site admin, does it? It's just a configuration default, which >> can be changed. > >Having answered the question of "how does Apache know", I hoped to get >closer to answering "how should packages tell $HTTPD". Take a look at the apache2-doc package which installs a config fragment as /etc/apache2/conf.d/apache2-doc referring to the documentation under /usr/share/doc/apache2-doc/manual. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
