[Fedora-packaging] ltsp root directory

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Sun Oct 28 12:17:25 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 12:01 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The linux terminal project needs a directory for the filesystems
> exported to the terminals. Upstream uses /opt/ltsp. Upstream asked the
> lsb/fhs, but nobody answered something definitive, and nobody said that
> /opt/ltsp was wrong when upstream proposed it.
> 
> In fedora, I think that /opt/ltsp is not very good.

/opt/ltsp is absurd (for upstream, for a vendor and for a distro)

>  I asked on devel 
> list and people objected to /opt/ltsp, proposing /var/lib/ltsp and 
> /srv/ltsp. (as a side note, it is in fact along /opt/ltsp5/i386 and 
> so on and so forth but it isn't of major interest, the issue is about 
> the directory the ltsp directory should be in).
> 
> 
> What is your recommentdation?
> /opt
> /var/lib
> /srv

Depends on what */ltsp is supposed to take. Could you elaborate?

So far, of these alternative only /var/lib/ltsp would resemble to
something potentially making sense.

Ralf





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