/tftpboot vs. /var/tftp vs. something else?

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 08:05:34AM -0700, Richi Plana wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 08:35 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > /srv is not available to distribution vendors.
> 
> The funny thing about this situation is that /srv/ was reserved for use
> by the end-users, and as an end-user, that's exactly what I want ... but
> all the default server data subdirectories are everywhere else
> but /srv/. No one seems willing or knowledgeable enough to move things
> to /srv/ even though they really want to (as evidenced by the number of
> people clamoring for moves every now and then in the list). No
> distribution makes it easy for administrators to choose a subdirectory
> for their server data (by easy, I mean via the GUI tools).
> 
> These days, when I install some server package, I can usually find the
> configuration information inside /etc/<servicename>/ or similar.
> Supporting shared objects and libraries in /usr/lib(64)?/, data files
> in /usr/share/<name>/, but the data files are all over the place.

+100.  We should make it easy for users to put their data in /srv, and 
that means making it easy to change server configs and SELinux file 
contexts for /srv/wherever-the-user-wants to match the vendor data 
locations e.g. /var/www, /var/ftp, /var/lib/mysql, etc.