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2005-11-25 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 340608 important thanks On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:41:18PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Steve Langasek dies 25/11/2005 hora 00:56: > > > According to the FHS, ``/usr is shareable, read-only data''. So FAI > > > should not by default try to write anything in /usr and place it's >

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Thomas Lange dies 25/11/2005 hora 17:35: > I like to skip the move to /var/lib/fai, and wait until I can finally > move to /srv. But this is still a bug, and a policy violation. Users applying Debian security guidelines will still encounter this bug with the default configuration... Prag

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:13:24 +0100, Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > The problem is, strictly speaking, using /srv would not be policy > compliant, I think, because there is no mention of /srv in the currently > included FHS. Maybe you should just usr /var/lib/fa

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Pierre THIERRY said: > Scribit Stephen Gran dies 25/11/2005 hora 15:19: > > My understanding is that while /srv is the right place for this kind > > of data, it would be incorrect for Debian packages to dump stuff > > there. /srv is the domain of the local admin. > >

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Stephen Gran dies 25/11/2005 hora 15:19: > My understanding is that while /srv is the right place for this kind > of data, it would be incorrect for Debian packages to dump stuff > there. /srv is the domain of the local admin. This is precisely why it should be put there by fai-setup. fai

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Lange said: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:41:18 +0100, Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > > read-write object the user can modify and update... It belongs either to > > /var or /srv (the latter I prefer, as it is clearly data for a se

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Thomas Lange dies 25/11/2005 hora 15:34: > My future plans are to move it to /srv, but the question is, if it's > really a FHS violation. nfsroot can be updated, regenerated, modified to fit the user's needs, and so on. I don't see how it can really be seen read-only. So it can't be in /us

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:41:18 +0100, Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > read-write object the user can modify and update... It belongs either to > /var or /srv (the latter I prefer, as it is clearly data for a service > exposed by the system). My future plans are to

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Steve Langasek dies 25/11/2005 hora 00:56: > > According to the FHS, ``/usr is shareable, read-only data''. So FAI > > should not by default try to write anything in /usr and place it's > > nfsroot there. See #309554. > Could you elaborate on why you believe this is an FHS violation? My /u

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Thomas Lange
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:56:17 -0800, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Could you elaborate on why you believe this is an FHS violation? Is the fai > nfsroot not shareable, or is it not read-only? (I would expect an nfsroot > image to be both...) The FAI nfsroot

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 03:19:08PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Package: fai > Version: 2.8.4 > Severity: serious > Justification: FHS > According to the FHS, ``/usr is shareable, read-only data''. So FAI > should not by default try to write anything in /usr and place it's > nfsroot there. See #

Bug#340608: fai: nfsroot should not be in /usr

2005-11-24 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Package: fai Version: 2.8.4 Severity: serious Justification: FHS According to the FHS, ``/usr is shareable, read-only data''. So FAI should not by default try to write anything in /usr and place it's nfsroot there. See #309554. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers