[syslinux] 0001-syslinux.mk-determine-where-tftpboot-actually-is.patch

[Ferenc Wagner]

Jim Cromie <jim.cromie at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz at cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:19 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
>>
>>> on my laptop, TFTPBOOT should point to /var/lib/tftpboot
>>> patch 1 makes that happen.
>>
>> Ew.  /tftpboot is traditional, and a reasonable default.
>> Polling for all of the possible other places doesn't seem
>> like it's something make should be doing.
>
> FWIW, my fedora desktop, and my ubuntu laptop both use
> /var/lib/tftpboot.  Id imagine other distros do too,
> covering a large majority of Linux boxes in use.
> I would not expect many more variations to arise.

This doesn't seem that clear-cut, cf.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tftp-hpa/+bug/84615
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477109
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606725

which suggest /srv/tftp being an FHS-compliant emerging standard.
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Cheers,
Feri.