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

Jim Cromie jim.cromie at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 13:32:52 PDT 2011


On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Cheers,
> Feri.
>

thanks for point that out.
emerging standard suggests that distros will eventually converge there.
revision attached.
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