On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:52:54AM +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote: > Hello, > > As I were writing an email about the consistency of tftpboot directory, > I fount a previous debian-policy thread[1] where it seemed that a > consensus were already met. > (If you wonder why I'm interested with this, see [2]) > > I've worked on the following policy snippet. As far as I am concerned, I > would rather make the default location compulsory, and probably drop > "tftp-get-root-location" then.
Yes please. > Here it is. Your comments/amendments are welcome : > > --- START --- > 11.12 Packages providing a tftp server > > Packages that provides a tftp server (tftpd) which meets the criteria > listed below should declare in their control data that they provide the > virtual package tftp-server. > > To be a tftp-server, a program must: > > * Provide a TFTP service compatible with RFC 783 and 1350. > * Serve filenames relatively to the defined tftp-root, not > relatively to the system root directory (/). > * Provide a program named "/usr/bin/tftp-get-root-location" which > returns the location of tftp root, as currently configured and > enabled by the system owner. > > And it should : > * Define /srv/tftp as the default tftp root directory. > > Note : The tftp-server is not expected to follow/serve symbolic links > (due to chroot). You means symbolic links that point outside the tftproot ? Because debian-installer tftp media include symbolic links (and they work fine). Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
