Status and outlook of LSB and FHS compliance of Fedora.

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Jun 3 15:39:18 UTC 2004


Phil Knirsch (pknirsch at redhat.com) said: 
> That only leaves vsftpd and httpd. The problem with those packages is 
> how to ensure and guarantee a 100% safe data migration of data during an 
> upgrade. For that reason we probably will keep them where they are for 
> now, too. For httpd it would also probably brake quite a few 3rd party 
> applications that either directly write to /var/www/html or which do 
> some other work with /var/www and expect it to be there as currently.

Frankly, what I would do for httpd/ftp is:

a) do the move in the packages we ship
b) don't move any user data
c) relnote that the defaults have changed

People can migrate their own sites on upgrade if they wish.

Bill





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