[arch-projects] [PATCH 4/4] fhs: disallow installing in /srv

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Seblu <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Seblu <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:
>>
>> what's about adding /etc/webapps and /usr/share/webapps in php.ini ?
>> We already add /srv/http.
>
> Looking inside repositories for examples, phpmyadmin look like an
> exception. We lack of clean rules and a cleanning of our web packages.
>
> What's about a /var/lib/webapps to have "writable" content outside
> /usr ? Wiki suggest to symlink /var/lib to /usr/share/webapps?

imo, which is the only relevant opinion [sarcasm], these things should
be in /usr/share/{pkgname} like anything else, with upload
directories/etc configured to /var/lib/{pkgname}.  phpmyadmin (on
debian?) IIRC works like this -- nothing should be writing to /etc,
and preferably nothing should be writing to /usr/share either
(locale-gen is the only tool i know off-hand that does this regularly,
and is incorrect imo).

on other distros these webapps are enabled by dropping configuration
files in /etc/httpd/* ... it would be nice to have a generic way of
specifying installation details (vs. just assuming apache2, which
bytes compared to uwsgi/mongrel2/nginx/{insert-here})

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C Anthony