Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 20 /srv - Services Home Directory Support

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>]

Luca Barbato wrote:
> I'm thinking about adding the srvdir[1] global useflag.
> 
> Scream if I miss some discussion preventing it.
> 
> (fenice[2] will use it, that's why I'm adding it)
> 
> lu
> 
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0020.html#implementation
> [2] http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=fenice
> 

Hi all,
not a dev, but please bear with me :-)


>From [1] above:

GLEP:	20
Title:	/srv - Services Home Directory Support
Version:	1.2
Last-Modified:	2004/11/11 21:35:53
Author:	Stuart Herbert <stuart at gentoo.org>, Rob Holland <tigger at gentoo.org>
Status:	Approved
Type:	Standards Track
Content-Type:	text/x-rst
Created:	09-Feb-2004
Post-History:	21-Feb-2004, 11-Nov-2004

It is 2006, any updates on this GELP?

Just a quick look turned out a 404 error on the FHS2.3 link. ( http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ ?)

I am not very read in LSB, but just saw there is a 3.x version...
What about LSB 3.x? Is it the same recomendation?

Although I run quite a bunch of services on a few boxes, I don't see this whole idea (/srv).
I read the GLEP, I read [FHS#srv] but still. And it says:
    "The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified
     as there is currently no consensus on how this should be done."

So how does Gentoo implement it?

[FHS#svg]	http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM

And as the GLEP talks about webapps, what will an upgrade of a webapp (say Bugzilla) to/from srv?
I feel it breaking and user screaming.


And a few general comments:

Hmm, the GLEP index page [a] shows GLEP 20 with status "SA" which according to the legend is
"Standards Track + Accepted". The [1] above has status "Approved" which might be the same, but why
is not there consistency in terms?

If it is approved/accepted doesn't it mean it is implemented by somebody?

[a]	http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/

Kalin.

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